A series of YouTube type videos are being posted around the internet, using violent and unprofessional imagery, making and repeating already proven false claims about NEMSA. These videos are the work of agents of a rival union, attempting to convince NEMSA members to abandon NEMSA in favor of another union.

WARNING: THESE IMAGES ARE FROM A UNITED EMS WORKERS/AFSCME 4911 WEBSITE AND MAY CONTAIN GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, GORE, AND INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

These images are screen captures from Anti-NEMSA videos posted on YouTube and other internet sites. Is this how you want to represent yourself to your employer?

FOR NEMSA PROFESSIONALISM = SUCCESS

NEMSA is too busy representing members, winning arbitrations, conducting representational hearings, and negotiating contracts to even respond to the various absurd, false, and misleading claims within these videos.

However the videos do give opportunity to bring up concerns over Professionalism within the industry. NEMSA represents EMS Professionals, appealing to ambulance companies and the community that NEMSA members are professional EMS providers and deserve higher levels of pay, secure benefits, and better working conditions as well as the support of the communities that NEMSA members live, work, and serve in.

This push, to increase the public image of EMS Professionals in their communities has led to improved lives, and improvements in wages, benefits, and working conditions for NEMSA members. NEMSA members have gotten involved in their local communities, through charity activities, volunteer time, and community service. The communities NEMSA members serve have responded by supporting their local NEMSA members. Local, State, and National politicians have responded by becoming involved in issues NEMSA members find most important. NEMSA’s affiliation with NAGE will continue the push for professionalism forward.

At a time when ambulance reimbursement rates are being heavily regulated and ambulance companies are beginning to have a difficult time providing needed services and in some cases, even remaining in business, it is only the professionalism of NEMSA members that differentiates them from other EMS providers.

In this modern day era of EMS:

Professionalism = Jobs.

Professionalism = Gains At The Bargaining Table.

Professionalism = Success.

The future is unknown for EMS, with major Federal Legislation changing how EMS operates. Change almost seems a constant. In these new and ever changing days for EMS, let our Professional Conduct be what defines us and may we show our employers, our community, and each other why we deserve to have better lives, better wages, improved benefits, and better working conditions.

“Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.”– David Maister