By Moises Canales
Apr 28, 2021 7:40 AM
The Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) is taking a moment on Wednesday to recognize the National Day of Mourning.
SGEU Acting President Roseann Strelezki said April 28 is an opportunity for people to remember those who have been killed, injured or become sick while on the job.
Strelezki said this year they are highlighting the human cost from the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did she mention how there’s nearly 500 deaths from people who tested positive for COVID-19, but that two-thirds of current COVID-19 outbreaks in the province are classified as workplace outbreaks. Strelezki added most other outbreaks are in locations such as schools and correctional centres.
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Plea to allow ‘spare’ RTC staff to sign in attendance register
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Leaders of the AP Public Transport Department (APPTD) Employees’ Union on Tuesday urged the Vice-chairman and Managing Director R.P. Thakur to allow the staff that had been identified as ‘spare’ after reducing the operation of RTC services due to lack of occupancy owing to COVID impact, to attend office regularly.
In a statement, the union State president Y.V. Rao and general secretary P. Damodar Rao said due to the pandemic people had largely stopped using public transport, necessitating a reduction in the number of operating RTC services. The staff members related to the cancelled bus services were being asked on phone not to come for duty as they had been granted leave. This had triggered fears among the staff with regard to their job security.
REGINA Protestors gathered outside the legislative building on Friday, calling on the government to vaccinate inmates in prisons. Julie Paul said her son is an inmate at the Regina Correctional Centre and has now contracted COVID-19 for the second time. She feels the inmates need to be vaccinated quickly, to hopefully stop the spreading of the virus. “We’re not just going to let them stay in there to die pretty much and to just suffer,” Paul said. “They should actually be given priority, because they should have just known that they were just going to get COVID.” As of Thursday, there are 27 active cases in staff and 120 active cases in inmates at the Regina Correctional Centre, according to the Ministry of Justice. A total of 69 staff have recovered from the virus, along with 262 inmates.