https:\/\/www.saho.ca\/bargaining-updates\/saho-cupe-seiu-west-sgeu-saho-bargaining-update<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\u201cOur government continues to focus on finding administrative efficiencies in order to reinvest in front-line health care workers. In June 2025, the Saskatchewan Health Authority eliminated 26 senior out-of-scope leadership positions and redirected $10.4 million in savings right back into additional frontline care staff and on-site local clinical managers to enhance the delivery of patient focused care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The SaskParty government will continue to work on building a stronger, more robust health care workforce through our Health Human Resources (HHR) Action Plan. More than 7,500 new health care workers have joined the front lines since the HHR Action Plan launched in 2022. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Our Patients First Health Care Plan outlines over 50 actions to ensure patients are receiving the right care in the right place at the right time. \u00a0<\/p>\n
CUPE rally in Regina\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a\u00a0rally on Wednesday outside the Regina General Hospital, CUPE 5430 released new research showing that most health care workers in Saskatchewan are the lowest paid in all of Canada; \u00a0<\/p>\n
Continuing Care Assistants (CCAs) are paid $3.37 less than the average of all other provinces,\u00a0
\nFood Service Workers are paid $3.73 less,\u00a0
\nEnvironmental Service Workers are paid $4.33 less, and\u00a0
\nLaundry Service Workers are paid $4.36 less.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Union also stated starting wages in Alberta are higher than the maximum wage rate in Saskatchewan for all the classifications above.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sask. Party government has had four years to show health care workers that it values them. Instead, Saskatchewan workers are being paid less than their counterparts across the country and continue to be denied a meaningful wage increase.\u201d said Bashir Jalloh, President of CUPE 5430.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government cannot claim to be serious about fixing health care while simultaneously allowing Saskatchewan workers to sit at the bottom of the national wage scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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