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Rally at Regina Legislative Building
SGEU is organizing a big rally at the Legislature in Regina to tell the Sask. Party government Saskatchewan people don’t want public service cuts, rollbacks and privatization!
CUPE will stand in solidarity!
Show your support, spread the word, and attend the rally!
What: Fighting for Saskatchewan Rally
When: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Where: Legislative Building, Regina
Download the Rally Poster here.
Day of Action to Save Local Jobs & Economies
On Wednesday, May 17, join communities across the province for a Day of Action to Save Local Jobs & Economies! Meet outside the local health centre or school in your community and call/write your MLA as a group at a time that works best for you! Demand that your MLA represent your interests – ask them to reverse the corporate tax cut so we can fund our public services and the jobs that help support our local economies!
Reminder: Telephone Conference
The Library Worker’s Steering Committee phone in meeting will be held on April 29, 2:00 pm
The in-person meeting is in Regina, but there is an opportunity to conference call in.
Contact your local steward if you are interested in attending!
Stop Screwing Around
Another great article supporting libraries, over on Oursask.ca, courtesy of Tammy Roberts, breaking down the ten-year political history of libraries in SK:
So forgive me if I’m not buying that the Saskatchewan government has turned its back on its ten-year commitment to libraries (including the millions of tax dollars invested in SILS, which thanks to last month’s budget cuts is now no longer operational, after only a scant few years of serving the province) – not because it’s painfully out of touch with the electorate and piss-poor broke, but because it had a sudden revelation about its “core function”.
See the full article here:
https://oursask.ca/2017/04/16/screwing-with-a-century-old-system-a-brief-history-of-libraries-in-saskatchewan/
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Great letter to the editor in the Star Phoenix, posted Apr 17, entitled “Checking Morgan’s Library Facts”
Here’s an excerpt:
In 2009, I had a library card for my home in Saskatoon, another for my home in Val Marie, and a third for visiting Regina. Now I have one card and can use it anywhere in Saskatchewan. This is 67 per cent fewer library cards for me alone. I don’t think the minister has statistics to prove my experience is unique. Even if his numbers are accurate — he didn’t state where they came from — a difference of 175,000 library cards over 10 years is one card for every 65 people, or approximately the amount that would be created by eliminating duplication.
Full letter here: http://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/letters/letter-of-the-day-checking-morgans-library-facts