Media Releases

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 …