SEIU-West members who work for Canadian Blood Services in Regina say, because there has been no movement in bargaining in the past month, it is holding an information picket.

They want to get the message out to the public about their struggle to achieve a collective agreement for the past five years. Union president Barbara Cape says CBS hasn’t given their staff a decent raise or any of what the union says are reasonable requests made at the bargaining table.

In a decision released on April 6, the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board (SLRB) ruled that Canadian Blood Services engaged in unfair labour practices in their negotiations with their staff’s union, SEIU-West. TheBoard said CBS’s conduct “crossed over into an unacceptable avoidance of its collective bargaining responsibilities.”

Cape says, “Deliberate delay is not okay with our members and it shouldn’t be okay with donors and the public.”