Message from the Executive Board

On behalf of the Emergency Medical Technicians, Lieutenants, Captains and Paramedics who make up the EMS Division of the BPPA, welcome to our web site.

Since being elected officers of the EMS Division of the BPPA, we have been met with many challenges. Once again, we are faced with a contract that expired in June 2006. We have started the negotiating process and once again will fight for what is best for all members of the alliance. Only by working together will we be able to address the needs of this membership. As we have said before the ultimate “Bulls eye” has to be these union offices at 9-11 Shetland Street. This is where progress for the membership is made, not at Boston EMS Headquarters. The benefits that we receive come from the hard working officers of the Executive Board whom you have elected to represent you. There are important issues at stake that need to be addressed, not the least of which is to ensure that the members of this alliance are recognized as the professionals they truly are in serving the citizens and visitors of the City of Boston 24/7.

EMS today is an ever changing profession. In performing our duties we face certain risks. Unfortunately for our brothers and sisters in other areas of the United States the risks have sadly become a reality. Every year on Memorial Day weekend members of the union head to Roanoke, VA for the National EMS Memorial Service. This year we honored 26 EMS providers that lost their lives while performing their duties. Unfortunately, this was one of the largest Memorial Services since it first began in 1993. These brave public servants that we honored left their homes and never returned to their families. Let’s not become complacent, please remain diligent and be safe out there! We must continue to educate people of the dangers we are faced with everyday while reminding the deaf ears at 767 that we are not “Public Health”. We are Public Safety!

Only by working together will we be able to address the needs of the people we serve and the members of the alliance. History has proven results come from the Union not at Boston EMS Headquarters. The benefits that we receive come from the hard working elected officers whom you have chosen to represent you both past and present! Over the past 3 years we have built tremendous relationships on both a state and local level. As Dianne always said: “A union is a good as its membership makes it!”

Fraternally

Jamie Orsino, President

Bob Morley, Vice President

John Bilotas, Secretary

Tony O'Brien, Treasurer