Arbitrator rules against Essex County’s proposed sick time change – the same plan management pushed on library workers triggering a strike that shut down libraries

ESSEX, ON – In an interest arbitration decision released last week, provincial arbitrator James Hayes denied a County of Essex’s contract proposal to change the sick time and short term disability plan for 300 paramedics, represented by CUPE Local 2974.2, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).  The sick time change rejected by the…