The last active contract between SUN and SAHO expired at the end of March in 2014.

After more than 7 months of bartering and compromise, communications have broken down between the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organisations, (SAHO) and The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN).

SUN has released the statement all contract discussions with the province are now at an impasse.

The Union of Nurses is blaming SAHO of breaking down the chance to make an acceptable offer, because of its reticence to allow the option of calling extra staff in situations where accommodating the needs of a patient are of the utmost neccessity for their quality of living and safety.

Currently over 10 thousand nurses belong to the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses.

President of SUN, Tracy Zambory confessed in a news release she is disappointed in the way proceedings are going.

She believes SAHO's dismissal of the opportunity extended to them in order to collaborate with the organisation one they will miss.

SAHO says the conversations between the two parties came to a halt when the question of wages came in to play.

Coming up at the height of a provincial election in a little more than four week's time, the communication breakdown between SAHO (the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations) and SUN could be a predilection of a strike.

Although an impasse does mean a conciliatory period for both sides of the table, it is a time to reflect and to resolve the outstanding issues of the argument.  

Neither party can impart a lock-out or strike during the concilation period, but should the SUN Union choose to strike afterward, it may be a good test of the province's recently amended essential services law.

The last active contract between the two organizations expired at the end of March in 2014.