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For new graduates and experienced nurses alike, understanding union benefits, recognizing Professional Practice concerns and navigating Collective Agreements can feel overwhelming. Recognizing these challenges, SUN has been diligently researching ways to ease new members into the union by providing them with easy-to-access…

Our Network Leads are foundational leadership roles that support Locals through a range of duties. At the Annual Meeting, a resolution was passed allowing Locals to decide whether to invite Network Leads to attend JUMMs or NAC meetings. Should a Local make that determination, they would be responsible for extending the invite to the Network lead accordingly. The Network Lead would be…

Expression of Interest - Focus Group: Supporting Equity-Seeking Members At the 2025 Annual Meeting, the membership voted in favour of developing a Provincial Standing Committee around equity within SUN. This future Equity Committee will: provide insight to the SUN Board…

Recently, SUN Provincial has continued to work on addressing violence in your workplaces. We have spoken to SUN members across the province and heard alarming details of violent situations that registered nurses are facing on a daily basis. If this has been your experience, you are not alone. According to the 2025 SUN Member Survey, close to 70% of registered nurses across Saskatchewan have…

As a result of the requirement for the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) to declare publicly when an emergency room is closed, the SHA has articulated the work standard related to this matter for employees. SUN has reviewed the Work Standard and can advise that, specific to logging a service disruption related to Nursing Services, requires the following criteria to be met:…