Education workers, allies call on province to provide medical supports in schools

Yesterday, education support workers, a parent of a child with complex needs, and the Shadow Minister for Education joined CUPE Saskatchewan’s Education Workers’ Steering Committee (EWSC) to address growing concerns about medical responsibilities being carried out in schools without consistent standards, adequate training, or support.

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Good riddance to predatory cash-for-blood corporation, criminal investigation needed

Saskatchewan’s largest union welcomes the news that Grifols will no longer be operating for-profit plasma collection clinics in Canada and is calling for a criminal investigation. CUPE Saskatchewan has long opposed these operations and has called on the provincial government to ban paid plasma for years.
 
“Vulnerable people, who are preyed upon by these gross cash-for-blood schemes, will be safer following this company’s decision to no longer run its private clinics in Canada. However, this should not have been happening in the first place,” said Kent Peterson, President of CUPE Saskatchewan. “It was the Sask. Party government that opened the doors to private plasma corporations and Scott Moe should have kicked them out as soon as he found out rules were being broken and people were dying.”

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Picnic in the park highlights need to protect child care

CUPE Saskatchewan hosted an information table at a Picnic in the Park to Save Child Care on Saturday, August 8. Organized by the Saskatchewan NDP, the picnic highlighted the need to protect and strengthen Saskatchewan’s child care system.

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