News - Yukon Employees' Union

Union Orientation for YG Workers in Continuing Care

May 18, 2021 12:05 PM

All employees who work in Continuing Care are invited to attend an Orientation to Your Union session. Whether you are new to the job or not, you can plan to come and connect with your Union. Join us for a 45-minute session to find out about your rights in the...

Today, we Remember

April 28, 2021 9:10 AM

Canada’s Parliament passed the Workers Mourning Day Act in 1991, enshrining April 28 as a National Day of Mourning eight years after the day of remembrance was launched by the Canadian Labour Congress. Today the Day of Mourning is observed in more than 100 countries, is recognized as Workers’ Memorial...

Unions and Climate Change

March 02, 2021 4:13 PM

We Are All in This Together. COVID-19 quickly reminded everyone on the planet of how we are truly all connected. In response to the devasting impacts of the pandemic, governments around the world made swift decisions to protect the public and implemented unprecedented emergency measures. As a result, we have...

YEU Newsletter, March 2021

March 02, 2021 2:06 PM

In this issue: YEU pays tribute to two leaders in the Yukon labour movement, Percy Andrews and Jo-Anne Smith. Unions & Climate Change - We're All in This Together; David Anderson leaves YEU; Time Out Yukon and more. Read online here:

YEU Newsletter - January/February 2020

February 19, 2021 12:26 PM

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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....