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• "It's The End of Education As We Know It"

  Created: Saturday, 07 January 2012

  The EWSC will be hosting a one day Mini- Conference to discuss ~ The New Funding Model and School Board Elections ~ We feel that these two items will have a huge impact on education and you the education worker. Please plan on attending the EWSC Mini- Con...

• Education Workers' Steering Committee Staff Advisors Report

  Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011

    At your conference last year the delegates developed the outline of an action plan for the executive for the coming year.  The issues included:  representative workforce; job security; cuts in EAs; equality in wages and benefits; and collective agre...

• An EA Speaks Out

  Created: Sunday, 30 October 2011

    My name is Karla Stasaunik. I work at Langenburg Highschool in Good Spirit School Division. The students I works with range from students with a brain injury, to behaviour issues, to having mild to several learning disabilities. The daily role I play ...

• 2011/2012 EWSC Executive

  Created: Sunday, 30 October 2011

  Starting on the left... Janice Wolf Mueller, Executive Member; Karla Sastaunik, Executive Member; Earl Booth, Vice Chair; Omar Murray, Executive Member; Del Augustine, Executive Member; Russ Tocker, Secretary Treasure and Mark Welder, Executive Member ...

• Donna Zarowny, CUPE Local 4799 2011 EWSC Advocate Award Winner

  Created: Sunday, 30 October 2011

    Brenda Daufault, CUPE Local 4799 co-worker presents EWSC Advocate award to Donna Zarowny Donna is a member of CUPE Local 4799.  She has held a position on the Negotiations Team for the past two rounds of bargaining with our employer, Horizon School ...

• Municipal Employee Pension Plan Commission Presentation

  Created: Monday, 24 October 2011

  Betty Moleski an employee with the Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools and a member of CUPE Local 2268 presented the Municipal Employee Pension Plan power point at our recent EWSC conference in Moose Jaw. The Municipal Employees' Pension Plan (MEPP) was e...

• EWSC Raises $1277.50 at our Fall Conference for Make-A-Wish

  Created: Monday, 24 October 2011

  Moose Jaw's Temple Garden Mineral Spa was host to the fall EWSC conference. This years charity of choice was Make-A-Wish. The EWSC held 50/50 draws and had over 40 gifts that were donated by individuals and CUPE education Locals, CUPE Health, Regina Publi...

• Provincial Meeting of School Workers Starts Today in Moose Jaw

  Created: Friday, 14 October 2011

  CUPE members employed in K-12 education are gathering in Moose Jaw today to discuss the impact of education assistant cuts on student learning and to map out the next steps in their campaign to secure provincial bargaining rights. Read more......

• New Updated EA Petition

  Created: Thursday, 06 October 2011

  Have your friends, neighbours or colleagues sign the EA Petition. Signatures are required in pen. You must have at least 3 signatures on each petition. Please send your signed petitions to: Cam Broten NDP MLA Education CriticLegislative Building Regina, ...

• Judy for National Secretary-Treasurer

  Created: Tuesday, 20 September 2011

  CUPE Saskatchewan is proud to endorse our own secretary-treasurer, Sister Judy Henley, in her campaign to serve our union as the National Secretary-Treasurer. Judy's outstanding leadership and exceptional financial skills have been of great benefit to ou...

• BYLAWS OF THE EWSC

  Created: Sunday, 18 September 2011

  The EWSC By-Law committee has been hard at work reviewing and amending our By-Laws. These By-laws will be presented and voted on at our EWSC Conference in Moose Jaw October 13-15, 2011. We have posted the By-Laws to give you an opportunity to preview the...

• EA Cutbacks Clobber Vulnerable Students, says CUPE

  Created: Saturday, 10 September 2011

  For decades, incorporating "special" or "intensive" needs students into regular classrooms has been a fact of life in Saskatchewan. And rightfully so - lots of studies show the major gains that come from this. Thanks mostly to determined parents, children...

• Final Notice for the 2011 Fall EWSC Conference in Moose Jaw

  Created: Wednesday, 07 September 2011

  Conference Registration Form EWSC Advocate Award Final Agenda Final Notice ...

• CJME Morning News Jackie Christianson Cutbacks to Educational Assistants

  Created: Wednesday, 31 August 2011

  CJME News - Teachers and students are heading back to school this week but some schools will be missing Educational Assistants due to cut backs. School divisions say that the cut jobs have been replaced by specialized professional positions to help studen...

• Union Questions EA Cuts

  Created: Wednesday, 31 August 2011

   The number of educational assistants (EA) in Saskatchewan classrooms is dropping dramatically leaving intensive needs students without the proper support, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Last week, CUPE released numbers suggestin...

• In The Words Of a Parent

  Created: Saturday, 27 August 2011

  As a parent of a special needs student, I have to say I am really shocked by these numbers. I think all parents should be very concerned for their school-aged children, special needs or not. Our family has had the services of Educational Assistants for...

• RealRenewal Media Statement

  Created: Saturday, 27 August 2011

  RealRenewal is a voluntary organization dedicated to improving transparency and enhancing the public's voice in education decision-making. To begin with, RealRenewal fully supports inclusive education for students with special needs.  Further, we bel...

• An EA speaks out

  Created: Saturday, 27 August 2011

  My name is Karla Stasaunik. I work at Langenburg Highschool in Good Spirit School Division. The students I works with range from students with a brain injury, to behaviour issues, to having mild to several learning disabilities. The daily role I play in s...

• Union Blasts EA Cuts

  Created: Friday, 26 August 2011

  The number of educational assistants working in Saskatchewan schools has taken a steep decline over the past few years despite an increase in students with intensive needs, the provincial arm of the Canadian Union of Public Employees said Thursday. On...

• Educational Assistant Positions Being Cut

  Created: Friday, 26 August 2011

  The reality of fewer assistants in the classroom for special needs students is hitting home for some Saskatchewan families. It's happening in different parts of the province, but in the Prairie Spirit School Division in the central part of the Saskatche...