Keeping everyone hydrated at the Tony Cote Summer Games in the Battlefords region
Members from CUPE Locals 4747, 3003, 1975, and 5430 hosted free water stations throughout the event, celebrating sport, culture, community, and teamwork.
The Tony Cote Summer Games are held every two years and are hosted by First Nations communities and organizations across Saskatchewan. This year’s games are hosted by the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC).
Wages for Saskatchewan health care workers are the lowest in Canada
CUPE 5430 has released new research showing that most health care workers in Saskatchewan are the lowest paid in all of Canada. After four years without a wage increase, CUPE 5430 is calling for desperately needed wage increases to retain health care workers in Saskatchewan’s critically short-staffed health system.
Celebrating community at Back to Batoche
CUPE Saskatchewan was proud to take part in Back to Batoche Days, the largest outdoor Indigenous festival in Canada. Held annually at the Batoche National Historic Site, the festival brings thousands of people together to celebrate Métis culture, history, resilience, and community.
Low wages are pushing Saskatchewan’s health care system to its breaking point: health care workers will hold a strike vote in September
Saskatchewan’s frontline health care workers will hold a strike vote in September. Members of CUPE 5430, who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, community health facilities, laboratories, and other medical services across the province, continue to provide exceptional care despite increasing workloads, chronic short staffing, and years without meaningful wage improvements.
CUPE Back to Batoche Canoe Trip returns to the river
An intrepid group of members and guests participated in the CUPE Back to Batoche Canoe Trip by paddling along the same shores that 141 years earlier saw a force of First Nations and Métis warriors defend their way of life against Canadian militia forces.