Executive and stewards
President: Amanda Palieps
a_palieps@hotmail.com
613-360-3992
Vice-President: Barb Leggett
barb.leggett@gmail.com
613-363-9222
Chief Shop Steward: James Doherty
bushtoad@hotmail.com
613-363-7734
Secretary-Treasurer: Amanda Carse
amontroy17@gmail.com
613-363-7771
Recording Secretary: Elysa Fauteux
elysaf18@hotmail.com
514-531-0747
Committees
Negotiations Committee
Amanda Palieps
Barb Leggett
Elliott Montford
James Doherty
Grievance Committee
Amanda Palieps
James Doherty
Barb Leggett
Social, Sick, Funeral, Retirement Committee
Brad Hunt
Amanda Carse
Keely Beckstead
Barb Leggett
Ashish Talreja
Katie Hendricks
Occupational Health & Safety Committee
Chair: Keely Beckstead
Scott Halliday
Part Time Committee
Chair: Justine McNeil
Our history
CUPE Local 5734 represents the nearly 100 Paramedics of Cornwall SD&G Emergency Medical Services. The membership is composed of both casual part-time and full-time employees with either Primary Care (PCP) or Advanced Care (ACP) Paramedic certification.
We are a young local founded in 2009 but we have been members of CUPE since 2001. On January 1st 2001, the government of Ontario downloaded Emergency Medical Services onto the municipalities. At that time the members of CUPE Local 3251, representing members working in social services, by-law, engineering, water & waste water, finance, aquatics, and information & technology departments employed by the City of Cornwall, agreed to accept the Paramedics of Cornwall SD&G EMS into their local. In 2004, the local and the employer agreed that it was in the best intrest of all parties to have the Paramedics bargain separately from the other members of the local. Two separate bargaining units were then established: “CUPE Local 3251-PARA” (Paramedic) and “CUPE Local 3251-Non-PARA” (Non-Paramedic). Although distinct and separate in bargaining, the two entities continued to share the same executive and local number. In 2009 the local, as a whole, agreed that Paramedics should separate from CUPE Local 3251 and create their own stand-alone local. Thus, CUPE Local 5734 was created.
The number of the local also has meaning to its members. “5” represents the union region number and “734” represents the Ontario ministry service number for Cornwall SD&G EMS.