There is currently a vacancy on the SEIU-West Executive Board for members that work for the Community Based Organizations Sector.
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Virtual town halls (VTHs) were scheduled for the evenings of May 27 and 28 to update SEIU-West members about SAHO bargaining and answer bargaining questions. Unfortunately, the VTH on May 27 ran into major technical glitches. We apologize if you were one of the hundreds of members whose experienced this failure. We were not satisfied that the supplier of the VTH platform would be able to properly fix these problems in time, so we decided to cancel the May 28 VTH.
You may have noticed there hasn't been an announcement about bbqs for the summer yet.
The SEIU-West First Nations, Métis and Inuit Committee (FNMIC) is hosting a contest to design an image for orange shirts that the committee provides yearly to members. Submit your design to enter to win a $100 Co-op gift card.
Disclaimer: the following information is based on what SEIU-West found on publicly available federal government websites. This information is subject to change as it comes from outside sources. We will update this post further as information becomes available.
We have set up another two live and interactive virtual town hall meetings for our health care sector members.
For Immediate Release - May 27, 2020
Saskatoon – The members of SEIU-West were happy to hear that the Ministry of Health and the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) were responding to concerns raised about the closure of emergency rooms (ERs) in a number of rural communities.
For Immediate Release, May 26, 2020
Saskatoon – SEIU-West leaders are pleased that the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) have extended their agreement with the five health care unions to a set of shared health and safety principles in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: May 22, 2020
Greetings Sisters and Brothers,
Your SEIU-West bargaining committee was able to secure dates to meet with SAHO to resume bargaining on May 21 & 22 and 28 & 29. We agreed to meet via video conference on WebEx.
For those working in the SHA, please read the following information – if you have issues resulting from this product change, please report the issue to your Occupational Health Committee (OHC) and use the SHA intranet site to log a product issue report.
Dear Premier,
As a support worker with Sask Health Authority I would like to thank you for donating your annual pay raise to charity.
I thought that was a really nice gesture, for about 2 seconds.
I then realized that I did not get an annual pay raise.
After this Pandemic is over I hope the outstanding contract negotiations are different.
I hope the province remembers the support workers.
We are coming to work every day. We are following all the rules.
We are keeping your mothers, uncles, cousins alive in the long term care homes.
We are lining up to do whatever job needs to be done so they will be healthy.
We are caring people who do our jobs proudly even though we are just the janitors and cooks and caregivers.
We are the last line of defense for the people in long term care.
We are doing our best.
I do not receive an annual pay raise, let alone one that will keep up with the cost of living.
If I did get a raise I will just waste it on bills and food.
Thank you for donating your annual pay raise to charity.
SEIU-West Member