A number of ambulance employers in Quebec are interesting to the Administrative Labour Tribunal to pressure putting paramedics to conform to supervise trainees.
Paramedics belonging to a few main union organizations in Quebec are refusing to oversee trainees, as a strain tactic, throughout their strike with important providers.
These are those that are members of unions of the Federation of Well being and Social Providers, affiliated with the CSN, those that are members of the Fraternity of Prehospital Employees of Quebec and people who are members of the Unionized Ambulance Employees of Beauce.
The employers requesting the intervention of the tribunal are Urgences-santé, Dessercom, Paraxion, Demers, cooperatives on this sector and others.
Of their requests, ambulance employers argue that there’s already a workers scarcity on this sector and a excessive price of absenteeism.
Nevertheless, of the 413 third-year college students enrolled in pre-hospital emergency care, in 13 instructional establishments in Quebec, solely 61 discovered an internship.
With out internships, 352 aspiring paramedic ambulance technicians won’t acquire their diploma on the finish of the varsity yr and can subsequently be unable to enter the job market this summer time, these employers argue.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews