As many of you are aware, on April 18, the Saskatchewan Health Authority issued a memo announcing a province-wide review of security services, using an external consultant named Tony Weeks.
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Open Letter to CUPE Local 5430 Members
RE: Information Technology and the Saskatchewan Health Authority
In conjunction with the release of the Saskatchewan Government’s budget on Tuesday, April 10, CUPE Local 5430 learned of significant changes coming to members who work in information technology (IT).
Region 5 Members in Melville are wearing CUPE at work to support the bargaining committee during negotiations this week!
This message is running in newspapers across the province this week in all areas where CUPE represents health care workers.
Share this message about workload on Facebook!
5430 members in Melville took this group photo to show support for the Bargaining Committee. Remember to wear CUPE in the workplace during bargaining this week if you can in your department.
Congratulations to Brian Manegre and Marilyn Goll on their CUPE Saskatchewan awards for union activism! And also to the entire executive board and membership of former Local 5111 (Now L. 5430, Region 1) on their Woodrow Stanley Lloyd Award for Collective Action! This award was given for their commitment to workplace health and safety in the name-tag arbitration victory.
On March 12 a delegation of Local 5430 members from across the province hand-delivered more than 2,000 individually signed postcards to the office of Minister of Health Jim Reiter.
The postcards demand a fair and reasonable pay increase for health care workers, not a 3.5% wage rollback.
The delivery of postcards to the minister's office coincided with the first day of the new legislative session and as parties return to the bargaining table in health care.
The delegation of 5430 members also met with opposition Health Critic Danielle Chartier and Labour Critic Nicole Rancourt to discuss the seriousness of short-staffing, workload, workplace violence, resident care, and retention and recruitment of staff in health care.
Please plan to participate in a telephone town hall that will be held Thursday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. Your bargaining committee will provide further details about the status of collective bargaining as well as many transition issues we are dealing with due to the replacement of 12 health regions with the Saskatchewan Health Authority. The telephone town hall format allows members to ask questions and provide feedback to your bargaining committee, so your participation is extremely important.
You should receive a phone call automatically at 6:30 PM on Thursday.
If you would like to call-in, please email
We look forward to speaking with you on the telephone town hall.
Opinion by CUPE Local 5430 President Sandra Seitz as published in the Regina Leader Post January 25, 2018
For years, the Saskatchewan Party government has been championing the benefits of public private partnerships (P3s) as a way to build public infrastructure. It has used the P3 model to build four major projects in the province, including the controversial Regina bypass and the new Saskatchewan Hospital in North Battleford.
CUPE’s collective agreement is the only provincial health care agreement that restricts the use of volunteers in order to protect the job security of union members.
Volunteers play an important role in our health care system. Health regions rely on numerous volunteers to carry out a variety of activities, including visiting and socializing with patients and residents.
However, under the CUPE-SAHO collective agreement, the Employer cannot use volunteers to fill existing or new positions and the use of volunteers cannot result in the direct layoff of any CUPE member.
The collective agreement further prevents the Employer from providing any wage or remuneration to a volunteer.
Join thousands of other CUPE health care workers in sending a strong message directly to Minister of Health Jim Reiter by filling out one of our bargaining postcards! We’re collecting them all for direct delivery to the government.
Fill out a postcard calling for a FAIR DEAL for all health care workers!
Ask a CUPE representative in your facility or contact your L. 5430 Regional Office to receive postcards to sign.
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