Municipalities need to answer the emergency call for more 911 funding
For some time now, there simply have not been enough 9-1-1 operators in the system to deal with any significant surge in ...
Support your 9-1-1 Operators Who Are Pushing Through the Long Weekend
Over this long weekend, 9-1-1 Operators are being asked to work any additional overtime that they can handle and cancel ...
9-1-1 operators “stretched to the limit” during heat wave
9-1-1 operators “stretched to the limit” during heat wave VANCOUVER—Record high temperatures during the historic ...
Emergency Services Dispatchers and 9-1-1 Awareness Week
Emergency dispatchers and 9-1-1 call takers are the life line for our communities and their work has become all the more ...
ECPBC celebrates International Women’s Day
Further strides are still needed to achieve equality in our world, and for this year's women's day (March 8), our local ...
CUPE’s emergency dispatchers reborn as Local 8911
More than twenty years after being brought into the Canadian Union of Public Employees as a sub-local of the Ambulance ...
E-Comm and CUPE Local 873 to proceed to interest arbitration
E-Comm and CUPE Local 873, the Union that represents E-Comm’s 533 Bargaining Unit employees, have mutually agreed to ...
Emergency Dispatchers of BC ‘more than just a number’ – video
The Emergency Dispatchers of BC (CUPE 873-02), representing more than five hundred 9-1-1 dispatchers, call takers ...
CUPE 873-02, E-Comm bargaining talks go to mediation
The BC Labour Relations Board has appointed mediator Trevor Sones to mediate contract talks between E-Comm Emergency ...
B.C.’s 9-1-1 Operators Launch Awareness Campaign
CUPE 873-02 dispatchers are the lifeline for people in distress and the nerve centre for emergency response in ...