Paramedics honour station chief, search & rescue legend
NORTH VANCOUVER – Hundreds of CUPE 873 ambulance paramedics joined the Celebration of Life ceremony Saturday for Tim Jones. Jones died suddenly a week earlier of a heart attack at age 57. Jones was an Advanced Life Support Paramedic for 32 years and was the Chief at Station 256 in North Vancouver. He is known across the […]
Naramata Centre considering contracting out
NARAMATA – CUPE Employees at the Naramata Centre are facing layoffs as the Centre considers contracting out their work. Naramata Centre, which is owned by the United Church of Canada and operated by the Naramata Centre Society, issued layoff notices to food services, grounds maintenance and housekeeping staff and informed CUPE Local 608 of the […]
