Journeymen construction electricians can join IBEW 213 simply by completing an Application for Membership at our office, proving they have a B.C. Certificate of Qualification, and paying a $7 initiation fee. After they do this, IBEW 213 provides them with a list of signatory employers. The applicants can then either find a signatory employer who will request them by name or wait for the next regularly scheduled IBEW 213 initiation.

Provided it is the employer's turn to request a journeyman electrician by name (they are only entitled to request every second journeyman in this manner), applicants who are name requested are immediately initiated and dispatched to the employer for work. As "A" members, they then pay tax-deductible working dues in the amount of 6.3% of their monthly wage plus $10 per month. They also contribute $11.30 per month to the IBEW International Pension & Death Benefit Plan. Based on the number of hours they work, their employer makes contributions on their behalf to the IBEW 213 Electrical Workers Health, Welfare and Pension Plan.

Applicants who elect to wait for the next scheduled initiation may wait two, three, or even four months before they are initiated and placed on IBEW 213's dispatch list. During this period, they pay no dues. After they are initiated and placed on the dispatch list, they pay unemployed dues in the amount of $22.80 per month (which includes their $11.30 IBEW International Pension & Death Benefit Plan contribution) until they are employed. Thereafter in order to maintain their membership, they must pay working dues when they are employed as foremen, journeymen, or apprentices anywhere in the electrical construction industry within IBEW 213's territorial jurisdiction and unemployed dues when they are not.

IBEW 213 electricians take a great deal of pride in the fact that they are among the most well-trained, efficient and productive electricians in the world. Their success in obtaining and maintaining good wages and working conditions depends on IBEW 213's ability to provide fully-trained, skilled, technologically-current electricians to signatory contractors. Accordingly, IBEW 213 reserves the right to at any time reassess the skills of any "A" Member and to place that member in an appropriate course or apprenticeship term for further or additional experience, training, or retraining (see Article 19 of the IBEW Constitution).