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Representing the workers at SaskTel in Saskatoon, Prince Albert, North Battleford, Meadow Lake, La Ronge, Lloydminster, Nipawin, Creighton, Humboldt and all other locations in North Central Saskatchewan.
Monthly General meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month with the exception of July & August.
Next General Meeting
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Start time: 6:30 PM
Location: Unifor Local 2-S Office
101-2225 Hanselman Court
Saskatoon, SK
BBQ 5:30-6:30
For all Local 2-S Members and their families
Please RSVP to: unifor2sjunebbq@gmail.com by May 27
Complete & Share the Survey: Help shape Unifor's National Bargaining Program
From now until July 1, Unifor members can complete a survey and influence the union’s 2026 national bargaining program, to be presented at Canadian Council in Ottawa this August.
Whatever your industry, however large or small your workplace, we want to hear from you and your members. Since its founding, Unifor has continued to build upon its national bargaining program, including a set of strategic recommendations to help workers across the country push forward a shared agenda at the table, one that in 2026 must Protect Canadian Jobs.
Unifor’s national bargaining program serves as a platform to share innovative, forward-looking bargaining ideas that address many of the economic and workplace challenges workers face. The program complements other strategic union bargaining initiatives, across industries, and is a tool for bargaining committees to use as they prepare for contract talks.
The bargaining survey, which takes approximately 10 minutes to complete, can be done on any mobile device or computer. Users can save their progress and finish it later if necessary.
The more members complete this survey, the better, and stronger, our national bargaining program will be when it’s presented to Council later this summer.
Nominations open for the Bud Jimmerfield Award 2026
This is Unifor’s longest-running award and is one way the union honours Bud’s work and celebrates those who continue his remarkable legacy of improving working conditions through health, safety and workers’ compensation activism.
Brother Jimmerfield was an activist, not just at his workplace but at other workplaces and in communities from coast to coast. Bud worked as a machinist for 31 years, exposed every working day to cancer causing metalworking fluids at an auto parts plant in Amherstburg, Ontario. He contracted esophageal cancer in 1996 and died 18 months later at age 49 and left behind his eight children and wife, Diane.
Before he died, Bud charged union activists with an important responsibility, “don't mourn my death; fight for the living and do your best to try to prevent future occupational diseases, death, and injuries from occurring.”
What does it take to be recognized?
Award nominees must demonstrate strong leadership, community activism through their proven commitment to health, safety, environmental or workers’ compensation-related issues, with a focus on the prevention of injuries, work-related fatalities and/or occupational diseases. Nominees must be active Unifor members and be nominated by their local union leadership.
Read about the 2025 Bud Jimmerfield Award recipient, Rob Giroux, previous recipients and their work.
How to nominate a member
If you know a determined health and safety, environment or workers' compensation activist in your local who is making a difference, it is easy to put their name forward.
Fill in their name and workplace information.
Explain on the form and, if needed, provide additional documents why this member should be the Unifor Bud Jimmerfield Award recipient for 2026.
Email the completed form no later than Sunday, May 31, 2026 to the Unifor Health, Safety, and Environment Department at healthandsafety@unifor.org for consideration.
The award recipient will be contacted by the National Union and will be recognized on stage at the 2026 Canadian Council in Ottawa (August 28-30).
We look forward to honouring Bud’s legacy and celebrating our union’s unending commitment to workplace health and safety.
2026 Scholarship Application period is now OPEN!
2026 Scholarship Application period is now OPEN!
Unifor recognizes that the cost associated with post-secondary education is a challenge for many working families. To assist in making education more accessible, we have established 23 scholarships of $2,000.00 each. Five scholarships are administered by the Quebec Council with a separate application process. Residents of Quebec must apply using that application process. See www.uniforquebec.org
The scholarships are awarded to children of Unifor members in good standing. Students must be entering their first year of full-time post-secondary education (university, community college, technological institute, nursing school, trade college, etc.) in a public institution in Canada. One of these scholarships will also be available to a Unifor member with at least one year seniority. These are entrance scholarships only and are not renewable for students entering subsequent years of study. A more detailed description of eligibility criteria and the application process can be downloaded below.
A selection committee composed of Unifor National Staff and Local Union Discussion Leaders evaluates scholarship applications. The selection committee reviews hundreds of applications annually and considers many factors when evaluating applications including academic achievement, responses to essay questions, and demonstrated commitment to social justice through extracurricular activities and volunteerism. In addition, the selection committee ensures that scholarship awards are distributed to best reflect the regional, sectoral, and membership diversity of Unifor.
2026 Scholarship Application Important Dates
Monday, March 23: Online scholarship application period opens
Friday, June 19: Application period closes
Tuesday, September 1: Scholarship recipients announced
Using the Online Application
Your application must be submitted using the online application form no later than Friday, June 19, 2026.
Click on the appropriate link below to complete your online application. Please ensure that you have read the instructions carefully, and have the following documents ready on your device for upload with your application.
Personal Statement
Current Transcript/Record of Marks
Essay Question Answers
Local Union Officer Form
PLEASE NOTE: Any application missing any of the required documents will result in an error message and cannot be submitted. Please ensure you have all documents available before submitting.
Apply as the Child of a Unifor Member Apply Now
Apply as a Unifor Member Apply Now
Details about eligibility and the full application procedure are contained in the following document: Scholarship Application Package
Join the fightback!
Unifor estimates that nearly 1,000 SaskTel jobs have been contracted out to out-of-province companies or firms overseas. Most contracting out has happened through attrition (retirements). That job opening is then contracted out to firms with substandard wages. In the race to be the lowest bidder, these for-profit firms are cutting corners on everything from training to caseload. It is another union job lost in Saskatchewan and it is privatization.
You get what you pay for
When customers are forced to deal with low-bid contractors, service suers. SaskTel customers deserve trained professionals who know our products and our plans. You don't deserve "McService" from over-worked, under-trained workers who are not familiar with our unique public telco provider.
Take action today
We're building a campaign to bargain stronger anti-contracting out language in the collective agreement, but we need your help.
Click here for QR Code and tell Premier Scott Moe - No more contracting out!
Reproductive Justice Now!
Reproductive Justice Now!
Reproductive rights are fragile and we must work together to protect and expand access to sexual and reproductive health care.
Please visit the Unifor National Website for more information and to sign the petition.
Become a Signal For Help Responder
Become a Signal For Help Responder
When you know how to respond to the signs of abuse, you can change the story. Visit the Canadian Women's Foundation website to find out how you can become a Signal for Help Responder.
When you know how to respond to the signs of abuse, you can change the story. Visit the Canadian Women's Foundation website to find out how you can become a Signal for Help Responder.
Women's Advocate
A Women’s Advocate is a specially trained workplace representative who assists women with concerns such as workplace harassment, intimate violence and abuse. The Women’s Advocate is not a counsellor but rather provides support for women accessing community and workplace resources.
These specially-trained, easy to contact workplace representatives have been instrumental in creating healthier workplaces and safer communities. We work closely with management ensuring strong cooperation to achieve this goal.
One of the best tools the union has to prevent violence against women and workplace harassment is the Women’s Advocate program.
Unifor Sector Profiles - UPDATED November 2025
Unifor’s Research Department has put together an updated series of sector profiles that provide a detailed overview of the various industries that Unifor members work in. These profiles contain key economic statistics and figures for specific industries, along with a discussion of current conditions in major development issues, and Unifor’s presence in the industry.
All 25 sector profiles can be accessed on Unifor’s website.
Protect good jobs in telecommunications, right here in Canada.
Protect good jobs in telecommunications, right here in Canada.
Did you know that telecommunications companies in Canada routinely use call centers, technical support, and engineers based overseas? Despite the fact that major Canadian telecoms benefit from publicly-funded subsidies and grants from federal and provincial governments, they keep sending good jobs out of the country where workers face poor working conditions.
Generations of telecom workers in Canada built the infrastructure that connects our communities. Any public investment should support the next generation of telecom.
For more information visit Our Telecoms, Our Jobs.
Take Action to Fix Employment Insurance
At the start of COVID, the federal government relaxed EI eligibility to improve access to emergency support for those most in need. Without these supports, it would have been much worse for workers and their families due to the COVID closures, lockdowns and layoffs.
Shamefully, the federal government allowed these rules to expire without implementing the permanent changes needed to make EI work for workers.
Last fall, union activists met with MPs to lobby for EI changes in this federal budget. Workers can’t wait for EI to be fixed.
Unifor is calling for immediate changes that improve accessibility, raise benefit levels, eliminate unfair penalties, and improve administration of an extremely outdated program.
The federal budget will be tabled in the very near future. Let's push the government to do the right thing and make permanent EI reforms that work for workers.
We encourage you to take action. Here’s how you can participate:
Share Unifor’s updated campaign page to Fix Employment Insurance. Encourage members and co-workers to use this campaign landing page to demand permanent EI reform now, call your Member of Parliament, and tweet at Decision Makers!
Proudly Unifor Products and Services Directory
Proudly Unifor Products and Services Directory
Every day, Unifor members work hard to produce and deliver products and services that are used by people across the country and around the world. With more than 315,000 members spread out over 20 different sectors of the economy, Unifor’s impact on the daily lives of people in Canada is truly vast. Use this directory to find many of the proudly made Unifor products and services that you can use in your life.
For more information click here.
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