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Frontline continuing care assistants (CCAs) are sounding the alarm over unsafe staffing levels, inadequate time to care for patients, and worsening working conditions in Saskatchewan’s health care system.

CUPE health care workers have voted 99% in favour of job action in Saskatchewan’s largest strike vote. Between September 8 and 14, 13,358 members cast their ballots to secure a decisive strike mandate after 3 years of stalling and concessionary demands from the employer at the bargaining table.

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.

CUPE 4449 members ratified a new agreement with Glencairn Child Care Co-operative on Wednesday, August 5.

CUPE 5430 has released new research showing that most health care workers in Saskatchewan are the lowest paid in all of Canada. After four years without a wage increase, CUPE 5430 is calling for desperately needed wage increases to retain health care workers in Saskatchewan’s critically short-staffed health system.

Saskatchewan’s frontline health care workers will hold a strike vote in September. Members of CUPE 5430, who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, community health facilities, laboratories, and other medical services across the province, continue to provide exceptional care despite increasing workloads, chronic short staffing, and years without meaningful wage improvements.

Front-line health care workers gathered at the Saskatchewan Legislature today to highlight new research showing that Continuing Care Assistants (CCAs) in Saskatchewan are among the lowest paid in the country, intensifying concerns about staffing shortages and the stability of the province’s health system.

Saskatchewan’s largest union is sounding the alarm on for-profit cash-for-blood schemes that present a clear and present danger to Saskatchewan residents.

April 1, 2026 marks four full years since CUPE 5430 members last received a wage increase – an unfortunate milestone that underscores the urgency to reach a fair deal for Saskatchewan’s frontline health care workers.

This announcement was a missed opportunity that does little to address the real crisis facing our health care system – the critical staffing shortages and burnout among the frontline workers running our health system.

Bargaining between CUPE 5435, representing frontline workers at CBI Health in Saskatoon, and the employer has reached an impasse. The union has formally filed for impasse under The Saskatchewan Employment Act.

CUPE welcomes approximately 30 new members at CBI Home Health in Regina, who have officially joined CUPE as Local 5605 following a successful organizing drive.

CUPE 5430 is calling on the provincial government to abandon plans to develop a new whistleblower hotline to report health care workers and instead focus on fixing Saskatchewan’s health care crisis.

CUPE 5430 is raising serious concerns about the Saskatchewan government’s decision to pursue a third-party, privatized model for the proposed new long-term care homes in Estevan and Watson, warning that this approach risks delays, higher long-term costs, and negative impacts on resident care.

CUPE 5430, the union representing more than 14,000 health care workers across Saskatchewan, is sounding the alarm over a new Saskatchewan Health Authority, SHA, policy. The change allows rural emergency rooms to be listed as “open” despite minimal staffing on site - and without adequate diagnostic, imaging, or support staff available.