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02 March
2022IBEW LU 2228 to welcome new members employed by Nasittuq Corporation maintaining Canada’s North Warning SystemThe IBEW is proud, once again to be working collaboratively with Nasittuq Corporation while representing its unionized employees who maintain the crucial National Defence equipment on Canada’s North Warning system (NWS). In Canada, the NWS (…)
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14 February
2022Check your Membership StatusGreeting’s members of Local 2228. It has come to the attention of the Local that several members have yet to fill out an application form to become an active member or a member in good standing. Even though a member is paying union dues and (…)
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11 February
2022Hydro Pontiac Collective Agreement Interest Arbitration AwardGreetings Sisters and Brothers, An interest arbitration hearing took place to settle outstanding bargaining items on February 7th 2022 for our Hydro Pontiac members. The outcome of this hearing was a binding arbitral award settling all (…)
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10 February
2022Call for RENEW/NextGen Volunteers to attend IBEW 40th International ConventionIf there are any members aged 35 years or younger that are interested in attending the IBEW 40th International Convention as a NextGen delegate, please read the attached communication from the 1st district and follow the instructions to apply. (…)
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01 February
2022Call for Proposals – Federal Government BargainingFebruary 1, 2022 The collective agreement with Treasury Board of Canada expires on August 31, 2022. In order to prepare for negotiations later this year, we are calling for final contract proposals from all Federal Government members. Proposals (…)
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28 January
2022Appointment of Acting Eastern Business RepresentativeI am pleased to announce the appointment of Brother Donald Dionne to the position of Acting Eastern Business Representative for the Month of February 2022. Donald is currently working as a Technical Operations Co-ordinator at Nav Canada in (…)
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14 January
2022First District Anthem Contest for International ConventionGreetings: The IBEW 40th International Convention will be taking place in Chicago, IL, in May 9-13, 2022. As part of the opening ceremonies, we traditionally have a Canadian present to sing our National Anthem. Due to the success in 2016, we will (…)
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21 December
2021MOU on vacation leave cash-out signed with TBSEarlier this year, we informed members that as indicated by OCHRO in their last bulletin, automatic cash-out of excess leave would be back in effect on March 31, 2022. We are happy to announce that last week, IBEW-FIOE negotiated and signed (…)
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06 December
2021Presidents Award 2020On behalf of the Executive Board it was my pleasure to present the 2020 President’s Award to Martin Myre for his many contributions. Martin Myre has been a steward for more than 17 years and in that time he has been unwavering in his support to (…)
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02 December
2021Automatic leave cash-out back in effect March 31Since the rollout of the Phoenix pay system in 2016, the Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer (OCHRO) had agreed to suspend the automatic cash-out of vacation leave, compensatory leave, lieu days, lieu hours or lay day leave. However, the (…)