Don’t Miss Out! YEU Bursary application deadline fast approaching.
Did you know that the Yukon Employees’ Union offers 9 annual bursaries to members and their dependants attending full time post secondary school? We offer $1000 to nine deserving young people each year. If you are a member of YEU OR you’re a member whose dependent son or daughter is...
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YTPSA Newsletter September 1976
Have a read of this 1976 Yukon Territorial Public Service Association newsletter from our archives. Training, Convention, dues and bargaining input… sounds a lot like today’s YEU. The YTPSA was the precursor to the Yukon Employees’ Union as you know it today. We’ll share more of our history over the...
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NO Politics with your paycheque?
If you’re a member of YEU, chances are that’s an accident. You got a job in a “union shop” where workers had already decided to unionize, often many years before you were hired. As a new employee you were given a union card to sign and a Collective Agreement –...
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Unions feed the PEOPLE! Join us for a FREE Labour Day BBQ!
Local Y010 and many other Labour groups will be flipping burgers and shucking corn Monday September 1st, celebrating Labour Day in Shipyards Park! Each year YEU’s largest local sponsors a massive community feast, inviting everyone to join the party. There’s free food, entertainment, old time games for the kids, a...
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YEU Newsletter, August 2014
Highlights in this issue: YE-Unity helps fill Food Bank Shelves; PSAC Regional Women’s Cttee; Member of the Month Gro Brodersen, PSAC Union Development Program, Top 10 Reasons NOT to Join a Union.Read the complete Newsletter HERE, PDF
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The Food Bank Challenge… look what we DID!!
When Whitehorse Food Bank‘s Executive Director Stephen Dunbar-Edge told CBC reporter Sandi Coleman things were looking bad he wasn’t kidding; the shelves were dangerously bare and emergency food hampers for the 1200 monthly clients were at risk. YEU Local Y010 President Tammi Sikorski heard Stephen’s interview and decided to see...
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! Y010 & YEU’s Whitehorse Food Bank Challenge!
The Whitehorse Food Bank is in dire straits; their shelves are bare and they’re having a hard time meeting the needs of hungry Yukon families. Summer is always a lean time of year for the community organization; demand goes up while the supply of food and cash donations goes down.Local...
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