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A Year In Review: SUN's Operational Highlights 2015 - 2016

This past year could quite possibly go down in history as one of the busiest SUN and Saskatchewan’s registered nurses have ever had to face. To describe the past 12 months as “not business as usual” would definitely be an understatement... View Report

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SAHO and SUN Reach Tentative Agreement

The Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations Inc. (SAHO) and the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) have signed a memorandum of agreement on a tentative four-year collective bargaining agreement. “I am pleased to report that in a relatively short period of time the parties were able to reach an agreement.  I don’t recall ever having parties move so far so quickly on…

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Letter to the Editor: Registered nurses are really smart. I know; I teach them.

Top high school graduates enter one of the most difficult undergraduate degrees. They must survive and excel in intense courses specific to the science of professionally caring for individuals, families and communities —health-care issues, leadership, communication, biology, statistics, psychology and counselling. This knowledge is developed and evaluated in classroom and real-life…

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SUN opposed to licensing for-profit blood plasma donation clinic in Canada

SUN President, Tracy Zambory, wrote to the federal Minister of Health, Jane Philpott, this morning to express SUN’s strong opposition to the licensing of Canadian Plasma Resources as a for-profit blood plasma donation clinic in Saskatchewan.   March 1, 2016   The Honourable Jane Philpott Minister of Health Health Canada Brooke Claxton Building, Tunney’s Pasture…

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Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says contract talks have stalled

The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says contract talks with the province have reached an impasse after more than seven months at the bargaining table. SUN President Tracy Zambory says a key item of concern is the ability of nurses to call in extra staff when they think help is needed. The union says nurses can often call in more maintenance, kitchen, or even snow removal staff, but only some RNs…

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