Newsletter – January
Sisters and Brothers I would like to start off and wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope you had time to spend with family and friends over the holidays. For those who worked over the holidays, my sincere thank you for helping and protecting the citizens of New Brunswick. Your dedication is not taken […]
Newsletter
Sisters and Brothers, Many positive changes are currently happening within CUPE 4848. Only with your support has CUPE 4848 been able to lobby and make these changes possible. The Provincial Government has recently made two major announcements. The first being a dedicated transfer ambulance service and secondly the implementation of the McEvoy Arbitration Ruling. Each of […]
Presidents Message
Sisters and Brothers, Christmas is almost here once again, its a great time of year to spend time with family and friends and also to help those in need. We are very blessed to live in a country such as Canada and enjoy our freedoms, religion and rights given to us by our soldiers who […]
Government Announcement
Premier Higgs made his announcement today on the implementation of a dedicated transfer service as well as working to have the Arbitration Decision’s Judicial Review cancelled within 30 days. He has also stated that his government will be continuing to work through the green and white papers that have been submitted. First we as a […]
Re-Classify Paramedic Movement
We are fully aware of a group of 4848 members who are actively seeing to separate from CUPE. The root of this is movement is wages and nothing more. The group speak of professionalism and positive change, however the only positive change that this group has even remotely expressed is the wage increase that the […]
CUPE National Sectorial Meeting
Four of the Executive Board Members attended the National Sectorial Meetings held in Ottawa earlier this month. The purpose of these meetings is to bring similar groups together to discuss and strategize on situations across the country. Sadly I must report the other groups had the same top three issues. This was an extremely beneficial […]
Upcoming Meetings
An Inner Executive Meeting has been scheduled for November 28 in Moncton. This is a small group meeting to discuss issues and report on items from the previous Labour Management meeting. Our next Labour Management Meeting has been scheduled for Jan 8th, 2019. This would normally have been scheduled for December however conflicting schedules from […]
Maritime EMS Union Conference
The Executive met in Halifax with the Executive Members of all the Maritime EMS Unions. This was the first time union lines have been dropped and this group has come together to discuss the individual issues in EMS. When it was all said and done, all aspects from all areas are dealing with the same three […]
Double Over Time
Dear Members, CUPE 1252 and 4848 have reached a MOA with the parties in regard to the pay rate for staffing Ambulances across the province. The rate will be Double Over Time for all staff that are eligible for the Overtime Rate of pay as per Article 23. Those employees that are below the 150-hr […]
