Those 120 workers are ensuring the proper functioning of ambulance services of the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC), in particular the maintenance of the ambulance fleet and the medical equipment on board the vehicles.

Their last salary increase dates back more than two years, as their collective agreement expired on March 31, 2020.

“After more than two years of negotiations, no one will tell us we’re not patient,” said via press release the president of the Syndicat du personnel de soutien d’Urgences-santé (CSN), Marc Dulude. “The employer says he has no other financial leeway to offer us except impoverishment. Yet, he finds a way to hire subcontractors at very high prices to do part of our work, instead of investing in working conditions to fill positions internally. We’re tired of this lack of respect.”

“The pre-hospital sector is a chain with many links, and they’re all important,” added in the press release the president of the CSN, Caroline Senneville. “Support staff is the perfect example. After each shift, they must prepare each ambulance for the next team of paramedics. If there’s a delay there, it affects the entire chain, and it ends up having an impact on the response time of paramedics with a citizen who needs help, and on the quality of services to the population. That’s why it’s so important to adequately recognize their work.

The Fédération de la santé et des services sociaux (FSSS–CSN) represents 3,600 workers in the pre-hospital sector throughout Quebec. (B.L.)

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It was 2:52 p.m. when 911 was informed of the fire occurring in an area of Chomedey, located just west of the Promenade des Îles, south of boulevard Samson.

The first of the six units of the Fire and Safety Department of Laval dispatched to the scene, made up of 22 firefighters, arrived at 2:59 p.m., immediately spotting smoke on the second floor of the residential building.

The firefighters also quickly asked for help from Urgences-santé and the Service de police de Laval (SPL), when they saw someone suffering from serious burns outside.

While completing the evacuation of the place, the firefighters quickly moved toward the source of the fire, and carried out an aggressive attack on the flames, thus succeeding in limiting the damage to the original floor.

The improper use of cooking oil being the cause of the fire, firefighters once again remind Laval’s population that it’s very important to use an approved fryer in such situations.

The Fire and Safety Department of Laval also notes that the smoke alarm of the affected dwelling wasn’t functional, and that it’s necessary never to leave food unattended on a working cooker.

The Urgences-santé paramedics also took care of a woman who had suffered a nervous shock.

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L’article Kitchen Fire and Injured in Chomedey est apparu en premier sur Courrier Laval news.