REGINA – Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) President Tracey Sauer has responded to the Information Services Corporation’s (ISC’s) announcement of a “strategic review” intended to “maximize shareholder value” and the government’s response.

“ISC has told us who their ‘strategic review’ is intended to benefit. It’s not the people of Saskatchewan and it’s not the workers who serve this province. The goal is to ‘maximize value for all shareholders,’ according to ISC’s release.

“That tells us that this review isn’t about making services better. It’s about finding ways to squeeze money out of what is supposed to be a public service. And the ISC release made it clear that this includes the possibility of selling this corporation.

“In 2017, the Saskatchewan government told us that they had heard us: a sale of any stake in a publicly-owned corporation is privatization. Yet, we didn’t see that promise reaffirmed by the government in their response.

“The Saskatchewan government needs to make it clear that this review will not result in the loss of any Saskatchewan jobs or layoffs of the workers who currently keep ISC’s services running.”

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For more information:

John Ashton
Communications Officer
Phone: 306.519.2903
E-mail: jashton@sgeu.org