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SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL EMPLOYEES UNION 20,000 members 12,000 Public Service workers CAMPAIGNS Fight Fair ITD Anti-Privatization Member Branding I Love Cornwall School Corrections Where Did the


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SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL EMPLOYEES’ UNION

  • 20,000 members
  • 12,000 Public Service workers
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CAMPAIGNS

  • Fight Fair
  • ITD Anti-Privatization
  • Member Branding
  • I Love Cornwall School
  • Corrections
  • Where Did the Money Go?
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FIGHT FAIR

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FIGHT FAIR

  • SGEU members who fight wildfires

and manage environmental disasters transferred to the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency — a new Crown created by Sask gov’t.

  • Force the creation of a new

bargaining unit resulting in 600 workers losing their existing benefits and employment security.

  • Ensure SPSA workers remain a

part of their current bargaining unit.

  • Worked with NOW

Communications.

  • billboards
  • radio and social media ads
  • website
  • SGEU members
  • general public

GENESIS, FRAMING, AND GOALS: PROCESS/IMPLEMENTA TION: TARGET AUDIENCE:

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EVALUATION

  • Fight Fair was a success!
  • Provincial government negotiated with the Public

Service and are allowing the employees to keep their CBA and their benefits (until 2021).

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ITD ANTI-PRIVATIZATION

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ITD ANIT-PRIVATIZATION

  • Public Service Bargaining Unit

wanted campaign focused on the contracting out of IT- related jobs.

  • Stop privatization!
  • Worked with NOW

Communications.

  • Pitched us scripts.
  • Hired an actor and production

company to film social media ad.

  • radio ads
  • website
  • Call to action
  • SGEU members (esp. in

Regina, where public IT jobs are concentrated).

  • The public across

Saskatchewan (as taxpayers footing the bill for expensive consultants).

GENESIS, FRAMING, AND GOALS: PROCESS/IMPLEMENTAT ION: TARGET AUDIENCE:

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EVALUATION

  • called their MLA: 4
  • emailed their MLA: 226
  • wrote a letter to their newspaper: 3
  • We’ll be able to determine the success of this

campaign once the 2020-2021 Public Accounts to be released.

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MEMBER BRANDING

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MEMBER BRANDING

  • Communications team

wanted to build stock photo library with actual members.

  • Future campaign to promote

public services leading up to provincial election.

  • To show our actual

members in our campaigns

  • Ensure our members feel

valued.

  • Worked with NOW Communications.
  • Pitched campaign involving focus groups

and polling.

  • narrowed down occupations
  • Found members to participate (including

a star to deliver the TV script)

  • Phase one: three cities, fifteen members
  • billboards
  • print ads
  • fall TV ad
  • social media ads
  • phase two: February 2020
  • SGEU members
  • general public

GENESIS, FRAMING, AND GOALS: PROCESS/IMPLEMENTATI ON: TARGET AUDIENCE:

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EVALUATION

  • email from member who cried watching TV ad
  • Overall positive response from public and our

members

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I CORNWALL SCHOOL

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I CORNWALL SCHOOL

  • Provincial government cut

budget for Cornwall Alternative School.

  • protests and media coverage
  • government reinstated funding

(for now)

  • Ensuring the government

doesn’t cut funding in the future.

  • small budget
  • interviewed students
  • created campaign in-house
  • social media ads
  • website
  • SGEU members
  • general public

GENESIS, FRAMING, AND GOALS: PROCESS/IMPLEMENTA TION: TARGET AUDIENCE:

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EVALUATION

  • Social media comments: support continued funding
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CORRECTIONS

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CORRECTIONS

  • SGEU President established

Corrections Campaign Working Committee in response to challenges expressed by corrections officers.

  • Internal and external polling on

perception of corrections officers.

  • Explain to public that COs are

more than just guards.

  • Build public support for better

allocation of government resources.

  • Worked with NOW

Communications.

  • Corrections Campaign

Working Committee selected direction

  • radio ads
  • social media and digital ads
  • website
  • Corrections Officers
  • general public

GENESIS, FRAMING, AND GOALS: PROCESS/IMPLEMENTA TION: TARGET AUDIENCE:

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EVALUATION

  • Social media comments: postive
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WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

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WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

  • overnment waste and

fiscal mismanagement

  • Demand accountability

from the government

  • Worked with NOW

Communications on digital and radio ads

  • Postcards
  • SGEU Trailer
  • golf balls
  • Facebook event
  • Rally
  • general public
  • activists

GENESIS, FRAMING, AND GOALS: PROCESS/IMPLEMENTA TION: TARGET AUDIENCE:

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Thank you!