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YEU Newsletter, December 2020

January 04, 2021 3:16 PM

In this Issue: Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committees in the Workplace: OH&S Insert & Poster; Discipline - it's ALL important; Hospital Workers Reach a Tentative Agreement; Letters of Expectation - Right and Wrong; #TimeOutYukon Campaign for fair leave provisions during COVID-19 and MORE. Download Poster: Occupational Health & Safety...

This Union Will Keep Challenging Racism.

October 29, 2020 11:41 AM

Unions are, by their very nature, political organizations. We advocate for workers’ rights, we fight institutional systems that oppress, and we strive to advance social causes that benefit our society. That means sometimes you might not like what we're doing. That means sometimes our political stance on an issue will...

YEU Supports YG Preferential Hire Policy

October 28, 2020 11:29 AM

Yukon Employees’ Union Supports Preferential Hire of Yukon First Nation and Indigenous People The Yukon Employee’s Union (YEU) understands that the September 28, 2020 announcement by the Government of Yukon of a preferential hiring pilot program for Yukon First Nations/Canadians of Aboriginal Ancestry has come as a surprise to some...

Yukon Hospitals are Bleeding Out

October 19, 2020 12:28 PM

Media Release - October 19, 2020 Staffing Levels Reach Critical Lows. Four members of the Whitehorse General Hospital’s nursing staff resigned in one 12-hour period earlier last week, citing “deplorable working conditions”. While damning, these resignations are merely symptoms of a system on the verge of collapse. Doctors, surgeons and...

Racism, Alive & Thriving in Canada

October 16, 2020 2:31 PM

Racism in Canada is alive and thriving, our differences magnified in an environment of seething animosity between the left and the right. If you don’t see racism, never saw it and can’t believe it exists, chances are your skin colour has never been a barrier to your safety or success....

YEU Newsletter, October 2020

October 07, 2020 3:55 PM

In this issue: Local Y025 Yukon Hospital Workers Negotiating for Safe Hospitals, Healthy Staff Introducing new Executive Director Michelle Parsons A Message from the President, Steve Geick Update Exciting new Benefits for YEU/PSAC Members YEU Behind the Scenes - what your Labour Relations Advisors have been fighting for lately. Learn...

YEU Labour Day Message for 2020

September 02, 2020 5:17 PM

Labour Day 2020 is almost upon us and celebrating the power of workers is perhaps more important this year than any other. Honoring the contributions of the working class and standing in solidarity with one another may be among the most valuable outcomes of this difficult year. We usually celebrate...

Return To Work - Yukon Workers' Compensation Health & Safety Board

May 28, 2020 2:27 PM

The following is from the YWCHSB website, dated May 20, 2020. RETURN TO THE WORKPLACE As the economy starts to reopen, gradually, we will see businesses resume, stay-at-home restrictions lifted and workers return to physical workplaces. Planning is essential to protect the health and safety of workers and the public....

PSAC Postpones Conventions 'til 2021

May 04, 2020 2:53 PM

Public health directives in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have banned public gatherings, closed many workplaces, and enforced the self-isolation of Canadians across the country. Adherence to these directives and the uncertainty of their duration has led the Public Service Alliance of Canada's National Board of Directors to postpone all scheduled...

Celebrating May Day 2020

May 01, 2020 1:11 PM

Today we celebrate May Day, or International Workers' Day. On 1 May, 1886, labour unions in the US decided to go on a strike demanding that workers should not be made to work for more than 8 hours a day. Just three days after the strike began, a blast occurred...