Local 5430 is hosting an informal virtual meeting for its members as an opportunity to connect. Wedesday April 19: 7-8 PM
1111 Osler St. Regina SK S4R 8R4
Phone: 306–546-2185
Email: reception-main@cupe5430.ca
1291-100th Street
North Battleford, SK S9A 0W4
Phone: 445-6433
Fax: 446-2405
Email: r1gvp@cupe5430.ca
215-16th Street West
Prince Albert, SK S6V 3V4
Phone: 922-0600
Fax: 763-8915
Email: r2gvp@cupe5430.ca
1651 Park Street
Regina, SK S4N 5A2
Phone: 757-7925
Fax: 757-6959
Email: r3gvp@cupe5430.ca
Email: region3@cupe5430.ca
46 – 3rd Street
Weyburn, SK
S4H 0V9
Phone: (306) 842-1559
Fax: (306) 842-1560
Email: r4gvp@cupe5430.ca
Email: r4admin@cupe5430.ca
180 A Broadway West
Yorkton, Saskatchewan S3N 1E2
Phone: (306) 783-1396
Fax: (306) 783-1398
Email: r5gvp@cupe5430.ca
Local 5430 is hosting an informal virtual meeting for its members as an opportunity to connect. Wedesday April 19: 7-8 PM
Minister acknowledges only 17 more CCAs are working in the province after promising to add 300 new positions.
Despite promising to hire hundreds of Continuing Care Assistants (CCAs) as part of their 2020 re-election campaign, numbers revealed by the Minister for Seniors show that the Sask. Party government has made almost no progress on hiring in nearly three years.
During the 2020 provincial election, the Sask. Party committed to hiring 300 more CCAs, promising one new care assistant for every 50 residents of long-term care facilities across the province. When questioned by the Official Opposition during legislative proceedings earlier this week, Minister Everett Hindley acknowledged that there were only 17 more full-time CCAs working in the province from the 2019-20 to 2021-22 fiscal years.
Dear Valued Member:
Our collective agreement expires March 31, 2023. We have been preparing for the past year and are READY to bargain on your behalf.
On January 23, 2023, we sent the required formal notice to the employer of our intent to negotiate revisions to our collective bargaining agreement. We subsequently provided a selection of dates in March for the employer to choose for this process to begin. The employer did not respond. When we reminded them of our request, they responded to say they were not yet prepared for bargaining and would get back to us. We are still waiting to hear from them.
We are disappointed that the employer is not prepared to come to the table right now, but we will continue to pressure the employer to come to the bargaining table in a timely manner.
The Sask. Party government has signed a $6 million agreement with a Calgary based for-profit corporation, Canadian Surgery Solutions, to provide an undisclosed number of surgeries to Saskatchewan residents. Canadian Surgery Solutions is part of a national network of for-profit private surgical clinics owned by Kensington Capital Partners Limited, an investment firm with $2.6 billion in assets under management.
“Contracting out surgeries is not a magic silver bullet for wait times. It is a costly scheme with little evidence it will reduce overall wait times,” said Bashir Jalloh, president of CUPE 5430. “If the Sask. Party government can afford to ship people out of province for surgeries, they can afford to invest in public solutions.”
Documents compiled by CUPE show that the provincial government is contracting out work to private “staffing solution” companies in health care – including more than $730,000 for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) in just one region of the province.
“This is the completely wrong approach to dealing with the staffing crisis in healthcare,” said Bashir Jalloh, President of CUPE 5430. “This issue is a mess of the government’s own making, and it’s only one example of the contracting out of healthcare workers that is becoming more widespread across the province. The hiring of private contractors is not only costly, it’s a temporary band aid solution that will do nothing to solve the issues that are causing a shortage of healthcare workers in Saskatchewan.”
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Dear editor:
There aren’t enough cooks or continuing care assistants in long term-care. There aren’t enough licensed practical nurses or medical technologists in acute care. There are simply not enough health care workers in Saskatchewan’s broken health care system.
It is common for all health care facilities to be short staffed. It happens every single day. This negatively impacts patient and resident care. It also impacts health care workers who must make do, working short every day. They are exhausted, burned out, and frustrated because they can’t provide the care that their patients and residents need.
CUPE Local 5430 has set up criteria for five (5) scholarships of $500.00 each for CUPE member(s) or a child of a CUPE member or a dependent (as determined by Revenue Canada). One member or dependant shall be selected from their respective Region to receive one $500 scholarship.
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CUPE Local 5430 is the largest health care union in Saskatchewan, representing over 13,600 members. We represent a wide range of health care providers in five major classification areas: clerical, technical, nursing, support and plant operations. Together, we each contribute to the well-being of hospital patients, long-term care residents and home care clients.