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Due to LRO vacation, the following coverage will take place during the dates listed:   From May 27 - June 27, 2024, Dave Nameth will cover for Jody Harasymchuk as LRO for the following local(s): All Locals within Southwest Area   From May 28 - July 11, 2024, Don MacDonald will cover for Touly Katsiris as LRO for the following local(s): All Locals…

As vacation submissions ramped up over the last few weeks, the SHA began to enforce its new vacation policy along with some newly created work standards. SUN heard from many concerned members and locals regarding the content and application of this new policy as well as certain related memos and work standards. After completing a thorough review, SUN has filed a policy grievance to protect the…

Thousands of Nova Scotia health-care workers, including lab technologists, in-hospital paramedics and child psychologists, could be walking off the job soon. The health-care bargaining unit, which is made up of members of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, CUPE, Unifor and the Nova Scotia Nurses Union, sent a message to its members Wednesday with…

REGINA, March 24, 2016: Members of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) have ratified a March 3, 2016 tentative agreement reached with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO). In province-wide voting yesterday, 91.5 per cent of members who cast ballots voted to accept the new four-year agreement. “SUN members are pleased to have language in their new contract that…

Key issue is ability of nurses to call in extra staff when patient safety at risk, nurses union says Collective bargaining talks between Saskatchewan's registered nurses and management have stalled. On Thursday, the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) said that after seven months of bargaining with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations, they are at an impasse. Details of…