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As Canada marks Paramedic Services Week, Unifor proudly recognizes the dedication, skill, and compassion of paramedics, emergency medical dispatchers, and frontline emergency services workers across the country.
This year’s theme “Improving Outcomes, Together” highlights the collective effort of our members and union to strengthen emergency medical care and support healthier, safer communities for everyone. The theme reflects not only the lifesaving work paramedics perform every day, but also the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and investment across our public health care system.
Whether responding to medical emergencies, supporting patients through mental health crises, providing critical community care, or navigating increasingly strained health systems, paramedics are there during some of the most difficult moments in people’s lives.
Unifor proudly represents thousands of paramedics and emergency medical workers who continue to provide exceptional care under growing pressure.
Across Canada, paramedics are facing rising call volumes, chronic understaffing, increased workplace violence, burnout, and lengthy hospital offload delays caused by years of underfunding in public health care. Workers are being asked to do more with less, and the strain on frontline emergency services continues to grow.
Improving outcomes starts with supporting the workers who make emergency care possible.
Unifor continues to call on governments at every level to strengthen public emergency medical services by investing in staffing, mental health supports, training, retention, and safer working conditions.
That means:
- Addressing recruitment and retention challenges in emergency medical services
- Reducing offload delays and emergency response pressures
- Strengthening protections against workplace violence and harassment
- Expanding mental health supports for frontline workers
- Investing in public health care instead of privatization and cuts
- Ensuring fair wages and working conditions that reflect the essential nature of paramedic work
During Paramedic Services Week, Unifor thanks paramedics and emergency medical workers for the extraordinary care they provide to communities across Canada.
Your commitment saves lives, strengthens communities, and reminds us of the importance of protecting and investing in strong public services for all.
