Unifor Local 2-S

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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, April 2, 2024 

Start time: 6:30PM

Location: Comfort Inn & Suites - Conference Room

610 Carlton Trail

North Battleford, SK

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!

8th Annual Tampon Tuesday Collection Drive March 1-29

You can donate at your local Shoppers Drug Mart, for more info visit the United Way website.


Lana Payne’s Message to Bell Media Enterprises


Bell has chosen to put profits over people in the middle of an affordability crisis. Bell Canada Enterprises terminated 4,800 workers, including 800 Unifor members in telecommunications and media.

Bell has slashed news programming, eliminating the jobs of 100 media members at newsrooms across the country. Deep cuts in telco will result in job loss for 700 members, from clerical, to sales, to the boots on the ground, with hundreds more affected by modifications in their hours of work.

 

To see Lana’s message click here.

The Education Department is thrilled to announce our incredibly popular Family Education Program for 2024!

Does a family vacation on the shores of beautiful Lake Huron in Ontario at a resort-like facility where your travel, accommodations and food are all looked after at no cost to your members or the local sound too good to be true? Unifor’s Family Education Program offers this and so much more. The Unifor Family Education Program is funded by the National Union. There is no cost to the Local Union and locals are not required to have Paid Education Leave (PEL) negotiated in collective agreements in order to have members participate in the program.

Our Summer Education program takes place during the months of July and August at Unifor's Family Education Centre (FEC) in Port Elgin, Ontario. This program has been running since the early 1970's for union members and their families.

If selected to attend members agree to give up their vacation time and the National Union covers costs for meals, accommodations and travel.

There are two steps in the application process:

For more information and registration forms please see Unifor's Website.

The deadline to apply is Friday April 12, 2024.  Successful applicants will be notified beginning the week of May 6, 2024. 

Unifor Education Area Schools - Saskatoon

April 23 - 25  - Registration Deadline April 2

Grievance Handling & Workplace Leadership (AGHWL3)



May 27 - Registration Deadline May 6

Bullying in the Workplace: An Occupational Hazard (ABWP1)


May 28-30 - Registration Deadline: May 7

Health & Safety: Beyond the Basics (AHS3)


Course Times: 

All courses commence at 8:30 am and end at 4:30 pm unless otherwise noted at the beginning of the course.

If you are interested in attending any of the above courses please contact Mike (president@uniforlocal2s.ca) or Tammy (secretaryunifor2s@sasktel.net), or call 306.382.7555.

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

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 Women's Advocate Program Booklet

Local 2-S Women's Advocate

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.


Please add your name to the petition, and stand up for good jobs in the telecom sector. 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:

Unifor Sector Profiles

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

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.

The Busy Signal

The Busy Signal is Unifor Local 1-S' quarterly newspaper.  For more details click here.

For the Summer/Fall 2023 edition please click here.

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