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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 2008 meeting calendar for Local 213, IBEW.
Please click here to view the Local 213, IBEW Bylaws.
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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LOCAL 213, IBEW
10th ANNUAL PICNIC
will be held on Saturday, July 19th from 12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m.
Queens Park, New Westminster
Please contact the Union Office at (604) 571-6500 to register.
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SHOP STEWARDS COURSE
to be held on Saturday, June 21st.
If interested, please contact Glynis at (604) 571-6518
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ATTENTION: TERASEN GAS MEMBERS
Please be advised the 'Flex Benefits Plan' proposal
was ratified on May 16, 2008 with 77% of the returned ballots in favour.
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NOTICE FOR MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL 213
ELECTRICAL WORKERS HEALTH & WELFARE PLAN
Members eligible for reimbursement of hearings aids are advised that hearing aids are now covered under the dental annual reimbursement limit of $2,500 per family per year. They were formerly contained in the optical limit of $500.
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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.
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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"
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NEW WIRE DISPATCH PROCEDURE—EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2, 2008
Effective January 2, 2008 available calls will be recorded on the nightline 604-571-6543 (also on the website in the months to come) with the onus being on you to notify (register) dispatch, by leaving a clear, concise message on the nightline, that you wish to take the clearance to a particular job. The member must register by 8:30 a.m. the following morning.
For example, if there is one job to fill and three members called in to “register” for the call, the member with the least amount of days worked will be contacted by dispatch to confirm. If dispatch cannot confirm, by telephone, the following morning, dispatch will contact the next registered member. This will allow for dispatching to be completed in a timely fashion which is a benefit to both the Business Office as well as the membership.
Please note that the new dispatch procedure does not apply to apprentices.
ATTENTION SPORTS FANS
Local 213 is forming an ice hockey team.
All levels of skaters welcome!!
The idea is to have fun playing games versus other union teams,
fundraisers and community awareness. If you are interested, please e-mail hvanbeest@ibew213.org for more information.
LOCAL 213, IBEW
HOCKEY TEAM UPDATE!!
There was a great response from the membership!!
Games are held at the Burnaby Winter Club on Sundays
from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. (until June 15th)
-versus- Painters District Council 38
3 games in ~ IBEW 2, Painters 1.
Attention: Wiring Section
Please click here to view Article VII - Travel Allowance language.
NOTE: Effective March 1, 2008 - the tax free rate for mileage expenses has been increased from fifty cents per kilometer to fifty two cents per kilomer. Therefore, in accordance with the Letter of Understanding regarding Local Travel Greater Vancouver and the Okanagan (pages 72, 73 and 74 of the Inside Wiremen's collective agreement) and the initial and terminal travel to and from out of town jobs (Article 701 of the Inside Wiremen's collective agreement) the increase/adjustment is also effective March 1, 2008.
~ 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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