* Lawyers - have Bar Associations
* Businessmen - join the Chamber of Commerce
* Industrialists - have the National Association of Manufacturers
* Doctors - have the Canadian Medical Association
* Graduate Engineers - have their Associations and Societies
* Merchants - have their Retail Merchants Association
* Farmers - have the Farm Bureau, the Farmers' Union and Farm Grange
* Contractors - have the National Contractors Association and other Organizations
* Gas Utilities - have the Canadian Gas Association and other Organizations
* Electrical Contractors - have the Electrical Contractors Associations of BC


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.

Therefore, our Workers have the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The Canadian Labour Code Division 1 provides for:

"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 two income families are having a difficult time scraping by to the point they're looking for a third job.

Our Nation is one with undeniable wealth. Yet poverty and despair are a fixture on almost every street corner in every city across our country. If you find yourself barely making ends meet between paydays, if you can't afford the medical and dental care your family deserves or if you're looking at retirement on a meager Canada Pension...

In 1999 the E&N Railroad Company transfered from Federal to Provincial jurisdiction, creating an Island Council.