Lawyers - join theBar Associations	Merchants - join the Retail Merchants Association
Businessmen - join the Chamber of Commerce	Farmers - join the the Farm Bureau or the Grange
Doctors - join the Canadian Medical Association	Contractors - join the National Contractors Association
Industrialists - join the the National Association of Manufacturers	Electrical Contractors - join the Electrical Contractors Association

To protect their wages, benefits, profits and livelihood, workers and business owners get together to protect each other, themselves and their families. They all want security and income protections as we do in the Electrical Industry.

Electrical Workers join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The Canadian Labour Code says:

"Every employee is free to join the trade Union of his choice and to participate in it's lawful activities".

This basic freedom is also echoed in every Provincial Labour Code across our Country.

"History sometimes turns on a narrow pivot. The deep structures of economic power and social consciousness usually constrain the opportunities and shape the choices men and women have to make. But there are also times when circumstances conspire to greatly diminish our usual sense of social inertia and institutional stasis, when tradition's chains begin to crack and old fears diminish, thereby making the world once again seem plastic and open, not just to ambitious few of will and vision but to a multitude of ordinary people who burst forward onto the stage of history."

Nelson Lichtenstein

We at Local 230 believe we are once again at that pivotal point in time where the distribution of wealth has become so slanted two income families are having difficult financial time.