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
As the COVID-19 pandemic surges and our front-line heroes are under ever-greater pressure, the provincial government has ended the Saskatchewan Temporary Wage Supplement Program.
It doesn’t need to be this way.
CUPE Saskatchewan has launched a campaign calling on the provincial government to step up its funding and expand the wage top-up program for all front-line workers.
You can help: Add your voice by sending a message!
Following a review of the vaccine delivery plan, the Ministry of Health has added additional health care workers to the priority sequencing previously established for Phase 1 of the vaccine delivery plan.
Additional health care workers included in priority sequencing for Phase 1 include:
For the FULL release, go here.
We have been following closely the work of the government on vaccine sequencing strategy and plan for immunization staffing. We have also been asking a lot of questions of the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).
We know that the province participated in the pilot beginning in December that saw frontline health care workers in Regina get immunized with the Pfizer vaccine. Since then, immunization expanded to other communities, and Phase 1 of the vaccination strategy was implemented.
Mid-January the Government of Saskatchewan and the SHA made an announcement about vaccine sequencing and published on their website the COVID-19 Vaccine Sequencing Framework for Healthcare Workers and Vulnerable Populations. The link to that information on the government’s webpage is now broken as the plan and sequencing have changed.
As announced by the Minister of Health and the SHA on February 9, 2021, Phase 1 as originally outlined will continue. This includes all long-term care and personal care home residents and staff, health care workers in emergency departments, intensive care units, COVID-19 wards, and COVID testing and assessment staff. As well residents of Saskatchewan 70 years and older and residents 50 years and older living in remote/Northern Saskatchewan are included in Phase 1.
We wanted to reach out to our IT members.
The Health Services Provider Unions Association, CUPE, SEIU-West, and SGEU, want to provide our members who work in information technology classifications with the SHA with an update on discussions about the movement of IT staff to eHealth.
After having reviewed both the provincial auditor’s report in December and the more recent investigation report of the Saskatchewan information and privacy commissioner, the health care provider unions have taken the position that the employers must suspend the proposed movement of SHA IT staff to eHealth until such time as they have completed a number of key recommendations that are required as a result of these two processes of inquiry.
The SHA and eHealth need some time to establish stability within the overall management structure and determine the roles and responsibilities of each organization with respect to oversight and monitoring vital health information for Saskatchewan residents.
We will do our best to keep you informed as information comes available.
In solidarity,
Regina & Saskatoon – The unions representing information technologists within the Saskatchewan Health Authority are concerned about the recent investigation report released by the Saskatchewan Information & Privacy Commissioner, and the ongoing plan for the SHA to transfer all Information Technology assets (except for digital health) including employees to eHealth.
“To date there have been far too many unanswered questions; now we have discovered through Mr. Kruzeniski’s report that the board and leadership of eHealth is in disarray. We know that this is not the first time that the eHealth Board has been removed by the Sask Party government. A similar removal occurred in 2018. Top leadership of the organization also has been changed by the MoS. For the protection of our members and for the security of private health information for all in Saskatchewan, we believe that the pattern of chaos needs to be curbed and an identifiable period of stability established prior to any contemplation of the need for the move of valuable IT services out of the control of our provincial health authority. Trust badly needs to be restored.” says Barbara Cape, President of SEIU-West.
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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.
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