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Please follow the links in the lower left-hand corner to find IBEW 213 news, events, information, and forms. If you have any suggestions about how these pages can be improved, please call Glynis Jones at (604) 571-6518.
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Please click here to view the listing of the Local 213, IBEW Executive Board members.
Please click here to view the 2009 meeting calendar for Local 213, IBEW.
Please click here to view the Local 213, IBEW Bylaws.
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LOCAL 213 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS
Unit #5 Chair/Executive Board Representative - Stephen Kingsfield (Elected)
FortisBC / IBEW Pension Plan Trustee - Albert Bortolussi (Elected)
Community programs are at risk for next year.
United Way invests in young children, particularly those in jeopardy,
and helps older children make the right choices.
Last month, in just a 16-day period, 12 people died in targeted shootings,
as gang warfare erupted throughout the region.
Research shows that we can break the cycle of violence by helping
vulnerable children at a time in their life when the right support can make
all the difference in the world.
United Way is encouraging people to give as little as $10 to
help give kids a way out.
Please share this message with co-workers, friends and family.
Visit www.communityincrisis.ca
Thank you.
Many small contributions can make a big impact in changing lives.
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ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS
The IBEW monthly International per capita is being increased by one dollar ($1.00) per month effective January 1, 2009 in accordance with the
IBEW Constitutional amendments approved at the last Convention.
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PLEASE NOTE: TELEPHONE AND FACSIMILE NUMBERS FOR THE LOCAL 213 IBEW UNION OFFICE, HEALTH AND WELFARE OFFICE AND APPRENTICESHIP OFFICE, AS NOTED BELOW:
UNION OFFICE:
TELEPHONE: (604) 571-6500 / FACSIMILE: (604) 294-1538
WELFARE OFFICE:
TELEPHONE: (604) 571-6545 / FACSIMILE: (604) 571-6544
APPRENTICESHIP OFFICE:
Telephone: (604) 571-6540 / Facsimile: (604) 299-4491
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ATTENTION VUBIZ USERS:
We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Office 2003 courses will be added to the IBEW Online Training Program at no charge. The popular program has been very well received by the IBEW members and their friends and families.
As we come up to our first anniversary of usage, we will be adding four new courses, Microsoft Office 2003 Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. This will add another 18 hours of online training to this already impressive library.
UPDATE -- FEBRUARY, 2009
Additional on-line courses available are as follows and all are CCOHS courses: Confined Spaces: The Basics, Contractor Health & Safety, Electrical Hazards, Emergency Preparedness for Workers, Health & Safety Committees, Ladder Safety, Lockout, Office Ergonomics, Office Health and Safety Pandemic Planning, Preventing Falls from Slips and Trips, Preventing Hearing Loss from Workplace Noise, Return to Work: The Basics , WHMIS for Workers and Young Workers Safety Orientation (VUBIZ).
UPDATE -- JUNE, 2009
We are pleased to announce the following courses will be added to the
IBEW 213 online training(VUBIZ):
Banking, Credit and Money
Basic Business Finance
Personal Finance
Introduction to Financial Statements
Interpreting Financial Statements
Understanding Financial Statements
Investing 101
Click here for instructions on accessing VUBIZ courses.
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Please click here to view the Building and Construction Trades Department, Canadian Office, AFL-CIO - Legislative Briefing Kit
"The Issues of the Future: Canadian Public Policy Without Limit"
~ New WorkSafe BC Claim Process ~
Beginning December 3, 2007, injured workers in the Lower Mainland and all other areas of the province should call the WorkSafe BC Teleclaim Centre to report their time-loss injuries. For more information please click here.
 B.C.'s lowest paid workers deserve a raise. Minimum wage earners working full-time should earn enough to stay above the poverty line. That can only be achieved by immediately raising the minimum wage to at least $10.00 per hour. Your help is urgently needed in the campaign to increaes the minimum wage.
BILL C-257 (FEDERAL ANTI-SCAB BILL)
DEFEATED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
Bill C-257 - a federal bill to ban the use of scabs in labour disputes that fall under federal jurisdiction - was DEFEATED today in the House of Commons by a vote of 177 - 122.
This is a highly unusual outcome as the House of Commons had previously approved the Bill "in principle" on second reading.
However, following the second reading vote, the business lobby really went to town and threw up numerous objections and lobbied heavily against the bill.
Stephane Dion publicly opposed the Bill.
Once again the saying that "Government is the shadow that business casts over the community"
proved to be very true.
In BC all ten NDP MPS voted in favour of the Bill.
All 18 BC Conservative MPS voted against the Bill including John Cummins who supported the Bill at second reading (in principle).
BC Liberals Keith Martin and Blair Wilson voted against the Bill.
Liberals Sukh Dhaliwal, Don Bell, Raymond Chan, Hedy Fry and Stephen Owen voted in favour of the Bill while Ujjal Dosanjh was absent from the House due to illness.
To view the results of the BC Members of Parliament, please click here.
ATTENTION: TERASEN GAS MEMBERS:
Please click here to view the 2007 IBEW "Standard" or "Legacy" Model Election
Please click here to view Transition Scenerios - Legacy - New Model - Coastal Employees (Front Loaded)
Please click here to view Transition Scenerios - Legacy - New Model - Interior Employees (Front Loaded)
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