3sHealth offers optional employee and spousal life insurance to eligible SEIU-West members. Enrolment is open for Employee Optional Life Insurance and Spousal Optional Life Insurance from May 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025.
SEIU-West Committees keep us at the forefront of the Labour movement in Canada, and provide an excellent opportunity for members to learn from each other. Committee members serve for two years, and we have now approached the end of a two-year term so we are requesting SEIU-West members and all current committee members to submit their Expressions of Interest form should they wish to serve or remain on committees.
Each committee is comprised of members just like you, a Top Officer, and is supported by a SEIU-West staff member.
In 2024, Canada experienced yet another record-breaking. year of extreme weather events driven by climate change, including heat waves, wildfires, and floods. Scientists project an increase in these events in the coming years.
If you are an SEIU-West member working for the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and you receive a communication from your employer indicating that you owe them money back for an N/52nds overpayment, please:
Info pickets provide an opportunity for SEIU-West members to send a message to their employer and to the general public, that bargaining needs to progress and SEIU-West members deserve a fair contract!
For Immediate Release
May 14, 2025
May 13 is Licensed Practical Nurse Day in Saskatchewan.
May 12 is Continuing Care Assistant Day in Saskatchewan.
As set out by the SEIU-West Constitution, a Convention of members must be held every two years commencing in 2011. During this event we discuss and debate the issues impacting our members, elect our Union leaders, and learn about member-driven campaigns.
This Convention is an opportunity for SEIU-West members to ignite the passion that moves us to stand up and stand with our coworkers and all those seeking a better world.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Please click here for Top Officer Candidate photos and biographies.
You’ll find delegates, SEIU-West staff, and invited guests at Convention. Only delegates have the right to full participation (i.e. voice and vote) in Convention business such as nominations, elections, debates, and votes on resolutions and amendments.
As detailed in the SEIU-West Constitution, delegates are selected as follows:
If you are a delegate (whether automatic or selected), or a staff member assigned to attend, you must submit a delegate registration form no later than April 17, 2025.
A delegate must be a Member in Good Standing (MIGS) of SEIU-West—which includes paying, on time, the full dues and other payments prescribed by the SEIU-West Constitution.
For more information on the delegate selection process (e.g. how many delegates each unit gets to send, whether a meeting is needed to select delegates, etc.), email [email protected]
SEIU-West will cover the following expenses for delegates:
The Resolutions and Amendments (R&A) Committee is responsible for drafting the Rules of Convention, and any proposed amendments to the SEIU-West Constitution—both of which will be debated and voted on at Convention. Each delegate will be sent a copy of the Rules and all proposed Constitutional amendments no later than April 27, 2025. If you have questions for the R&A Committee, please submit them to [email protected] with “R&A Committee” in the subject line.
SEIU-West is governed by an Executive Board of three Officers (President, Vice-President, and Treasurer), three Trustees, 14 Members-at-Large (MALs), and representatives from the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Committee (FNMIC), the Gender and Sexual Diversity Committee (GSDC), the Workers of Colour Multicultural Mentorship Committee (WOCMMC), and the Young Worker Committee (YWC).
The following Executive Board Positions (four-year terms unless noted) are expiring or vacant and will be filled by elections held during Convention 2025:
For questions about nominations and elections, email [email protected].
To run for President or Treasurer (you cannot run for both), you must:
To run for Trustee or Member at Large (MAL), you must
Candidates who run but are not elected for President, Treasurer, or Trustee are eligible to run for MAL.
For questions related to who can be a candidate, email [email protected].
Yes—but they must not campaign “on union time” in other words, while being paid by the union to do other work of the union. Their campaign messaging and activities should focus on their own qualities and accomplishments, not on those of other candidates. A campaign page will soon be set up on the SEIU-West website. Candidates may submit a photo and short (maximum 250 words) biographical statement for posting on this campaign page. The Elections Committee must approve the statement and photo, as well as any campaign materials that the candidates wish to distribute in the Convention Hall.
For questions related to candidates' campaigns, email [email protected].