Ontario CUPE Windsor-Essex Paramedics Union Begins Arbitration Fight Against Vaccine Mandates

A health worker uses a needle and a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to prepare a dose at a vaccination health centre in a file photo. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 2974, representing paramedics and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in Windsor-Essex County, Ontario, has started the arbitration process in its legal challenge against mandatory COVID vaccine mandates in the workplace.

CUPE Paramedics of Windsor-Essex said on social media on July 11 that arbitration will begin the next day “for what will be the most comprehensive, substantive labour challenge against covid workplace mandates, seen in Ontario.”