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Bargaining between workers and the country’s two largest railways is set to resume Thursday morning after breaking off shortly before midnight — a deadline that left workers locked out by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City in their first-ever simultaneous work stoppage. Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, traffic on the freight railways […]

Contract negotiations between Saskatchewan teachers and the province have hit another snag, along with a renewed round of finger-pointing. The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation says it would have stopped all future job action if the province accepted binding arbitration, but the governing Saskatchewan Party government says it won’t do that. Teachers Federation president Samantha Becotte says […]

The Sask Party Government is laying all their cards on the table. The teacher’s strike has been dragging on for weeks, with both sides accusing the other of wrong doing. Teachers want to bargain class size and class complexity at the provincial level, with the people who pay the bills. The Sask Party Government has […]

Teachers in Saskatchewan are escalating their job action, as they work to reach a new deal with the provincial government on a new contract. Starting Tuesday March 5th, teachers are withdrawing from all extra curricular activities in Saskatchewan for two days. That would include the organization, supervision and facilitation of activities, including athletics, non-curricular arts, […]

The union representing Viterra workers has given 72-hour strike notice to the Viterra Canada Inc.  This comes after more than a year of negotiations have stalled between the company and GSU Local 1 (Viterra Country Operations and Maintenance) and Local 2 (Viterra Regina Head Office), and after GSU Local 1 and 2 rejected Viterra’s final […]

More than 155,000 public servants are now on strike after the country’s biggest federal public-sector union and the government failed to reach a deal by a Tuesday evening deadline. Federal departments and agencies have released a list of services that may be disrupted now that workers are on strike. Here’s an updated list of what […]

The union representing City employees in Regina, has some concerns over the results of an efficiency review released last week. The review was conducted by Deloitte and looked at six service areas and identified 14 major target areas for improvement, while also making numerous recommendations. It’s estimated that the City could save $17 million within […]

CUPE members are raising the alarms when it comes to the reorganization notice at Regina’s Pioneer Village. On Monday the SHA handed out the notice to 500 unionized staff members saying there was too many staff for the declining number of people in the nursing home. Related Article: 500 union members at Pioneer Village given […]

It has been a long time coming, but the end is in sight for a contract to be signed between the University of Saskatchewan and CUPE Local 1975, which represents support workers at the institution. The contract expired in 2015 and Friday it was announced that a tentative agreement has been signed. President of the […]