The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 2974, representing paramedics and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in Windsor-Essex County, Ontario, has started the arbitration process in its legal challenge against mandatory COVID vaccine mandates in the workplace.
CUPE Paramedics of Windsor-Essex said on social media on July 11 that arbitration will begin the next day “for what will be the most comprehensive, substantive labour challenge against covid workplace mandates, seen in Ontario.”
“Where many others went through the motions, we will be fighting these coercive, immoral, contradictory policies with full force,” said the union.
Local 2974—which represents nearly 300 Essex-Windsor EMS personnel including paramedics, vulnerable patient navigators, vehicle service technicians, logistics technicians, and scheduling clerks—has been providing social media updates on the arbitration….