Unifor Local 2-S
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
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Start time: 7PM
Location: 101-2225 Hanselman Court
Saskatoon, SK
Unifor SaskCouncil has established two scholarships worth $1,000.00 each to assist with costs of attending a post secondary institution.
The scholarships are awarded to children of Unifor Local 1-S or 2-S members in good standing. Students must be entering their first year of full-time post-secondary education (university, community college, technological institute, trade school, etc) in a public Canadian institution and must have graduated from high school in the current year.
These are entrance Scholarships only and are not renewable for students entering subsequent years of study.
We are now accepting applications for the 2024 SaskCouncil Scholarships.
The deadline will be August 19, 2024.
Please remember to include a transcript of grade 12 marks, two letters of reference and a detailed list of any extra curricular activities. Applications will NOT be accepted without all requested information.
Completed forms can be sent to your Local office,
emailed to saskcouncil@uniforsaskcouncil.ca or faxed to 306-779-1210
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 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.
Unifor National - Health & Safety Issues: Heat Stress
Heat stress is an environmental and occupational hazard, resulting from physical activity in hot or humid environments capturing a spectrum of heat-related illnesses, including heat stroke, which can lead to death. Just like you can’t let a car engine overheat or it shuts down, you don’t want your body to get too hot. Working in the heat puts stress on our body’s cooling system. High temperatures and high humidity, stress the body’s ability to cool itself and heat illness can become a deadly concern.
For more details including a fact sheet, please click here.
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.
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:
Share Unifor’s updated campaign page to Fix Employment Insurance. Encourage members and co-workers to use this new campaign landing page to Sign the Petition and demand permanent EI reform now, call your Member of Parliament, and tweet at Decision Makers!
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.
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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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