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YEU Newsletter, February 2016

February 08, 2016 10:44 AM

In this issue: International Women’s Day March 8, Shop Steward Drive, PSAC Regional Women’s Committee Prize Draw, Yukon Women in Trades & Technology, Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre 40th Anniversary, Domestic Violence & the Workplace Download PDF version HERE View complete newsletter online HERE

YEU needs Shop Stewards!

January 08, 2016 4:05 PM

YEU needs Shop Stewards…workers like you who are willing to take some training and be available to help colleagues who need an ear, someone to accompany them to a meeting or to help find a solution to a problem at work. Who can be a Steward? Any member in good...

Greetings from YEU Local Y010 President Rob Jones

December 31, 2015 9:44 AM

Greetings Brothers & Sisters, Friends & Colleagues. It is a great honour for me to be able to write to you as the new President of Local Y010. I am humbled to have been nominated and trusted to continue the great work of our past President and Executive. I would...

Farewell, 2015

December 30, 2015 11:48 AM

This has been a busy and productive year for the Yukon Employees’ Union. Not without its challenges, 2015 offered YEU opportunities to stand up for Yukon Hospital Corp workers and Yukon’s school bus drivers. We saw new workers choose us as their representatives on the job as we organized new...

YACL: Building Strong & Diverse Communities

December 21, 2015 5:40 PM

Ready, Willing and Able is a new national employment program aimed at increasing the labour force participation rate of people with disabilities. This federally-funded initiative has been launched in 20 communities across Canada and has seen some great successes; Whitehorse is no exception. The Yukon Association for Community Living is...

YEU Newsletter December 2015

December 18, 2015 3:43 PM

In this issue: Domestic Violence & the Workplace; Pension Solvency Deficiency Issues, Greetings from Y010 New President, Building Strong Diverse Communities; Yukon Association for Community Living, Klondike Collective & more. Download PDF version HERE View complete newsletter online HERE

YG Bargaining Update

December 01, 2015 4:22 PM

The YG/YEU Bargaining proces is underway and the Main Table YEU team has been meeting to prepare for the upcoming exchange with the employer. This is an important job and no easy task so please show your bargaining team you support them and the work they do!

YEU Celebrates 50 years of Yukon Solidarity!

November 27, 2015 7:23 PM

Saturday November 21 2015 marked a milestone for this northern union; 50 years ago to the day, a group of determined Yukon Government workers met for the first time to form the Yukon Territorial Public Service Association. They worked hard over the first few years to achieve full component status...

The TPP: Why Labour must fight.

November 26, 2015 7:12 PM

This post by Nora Loreto, activist & editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media was originally published on rabble.ca Nov. 24, 2015Under the TPP, wage disparities will increase and the global working class will become even poorer. This will disproportionately impact racialized workers and women.It isn’t an exaggeration to say that...

Government & Union reach agreement on nurses in communities

November 18, 2015 12:11 AM