Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan (HSAS) and the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) were back at the negotiating table on Friday and Saturday.

This took place after HSAS pulled 28 people into the first job action and the Premier of Saskatchewan, Lorne Calvert, brought in a second conciliator.

Contract talks between the two organizations continued on Tuesday, meeting in Regina. There was no escalation of strike activity after HSAS and SAHO returned to the bargaining tables. The 28 people who were pulled off the job are on union committees and part of bargaining committees, and they will remain off the job as talks resume.

None of those on strike currently work for the Sun Country Health Region. "We are going day by day," said Don Ehman, vice president of human resources for Sun Country Health Region. "So far we have not had any action to cancel any of our services to prepare for a HSAS strike."

"The centres in Saskatoon and Regina are much different than ours, since we do not have those levels of services." Ehman states that Saskatoon and Regina health regions have "tertiary needed centres, in which job action from the HSAS would have a larger effect."