News - Yukon Employees' Union

PTSD & Work: The Link is Clear

April 08, 2016 4:09 PM

It’s time for Yukon’s legislation to catch up.The Ontario legislature has unanimously passed a bill making it easier for first responders with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to receive workers’ compensation benefits.Under old Ontario legislation (similar to current Yukon law), first responders diagnosed with PTSD were required to prove to the WCB...

YEU Newsletter, April 2016

April 04, 2016 10:04 AM

In this issue: International Workers’ Day, YEU’s new Shop Steward Coordinator, Whitehorse Connects, YEU Bargaining Updates, So Long for now Dave Muir, YG Contract Ratification Tour 2016, Training, Meetings, Yukon’s Union Advantage Download PDF version HERE

Non-Profits & Yukon Employees’ Union: A Note from the President’s Desk

March 30, 2016 9:12 AM

In the last few years YEU has seen a marked increase in the number of workers employed by non-profit groups who wish to organize their workplaces.YEU does not have an organizing budget or organizing staff and we don’t go out into workplaces looking to organize them. Workers come to us...

Not Yet a Signed Member? A Union Card is in the Mail.

March 07, 2016 10:03 AM

Yukon Employees’ Union and the Public Service Commission have partnered to help make it easy for unsigned members to sign a union card. Over the next few weeks, unsigned members can expect to see a union card in their internal mail. Delivered by the PSC, these can be signed and...

International Women’s Day 2016 #PledgeForParity

March 04, 2016 3:30 PM

International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day – observed globally, also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. IWD has been observed since the early 1900’s – a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw...

Congratulations! Teegatha ‘Oh Zheh Workers Ratify 1st Contract

March 03, 2016 2:42 PM

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...