A New Facebook page has been created specifically for our linemen. We encourage you to go take a look where you can also insert pictures, videos as well as texts or for any other information.
The name of the page is: Ibew 568 on the road
Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ibew-568-on-the-road/1571267079828407?fref=ts
Whether you are in the institutional or commercial sector, civil, industrial or road engineering, the regulations for the collective agreement on the parental leave are the same (with some exceptions).
You may refer to these links for further information:
1- Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP): http://www.rqap.gouv.qc.ca/Index_en.asp
2- Laws, tips and guidance: http://www.cnt.gouv.qc.ca/en/home/index.html (click on the Paternity leave or Parental leave at your right)
3- Employment insurance: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/ (In the section Types of Employment Insurance benefits, click on Employment Insurance Maternity and Paternal Benefits)
Wishing you a good reading and please contact us if you require further information (514) 329-0568.
If you are a Canadian war veteran and want a career in the construction industry after retirement then, Helmets to Hardhats Canada is for you. They have partnered up with the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, employers and government agencies to help with the transition from the public to the private, whether you are in the Forces or the Reserves.
Clic here for more informations: http://www.helmetstohardhats.ca
The construction industry’s workforce referral service, known as the Carnet référence construction, will go into operation on September 9th 2013
The Carnet référence construction changes a number of workforce management practices. These changes are aimed at improving the industry’s transparency by guaranteeing workers right to work and employers managerial rights.
Use your Professional Profile to make the most of your chances of finding a job that meets your expectations through the Carnet référence construction.
For workers like you, the objective is to make it possible for you to be efficiently referred to employers. The Carnet draws directly from the Professional Profiles of construction workers in the CCQ’s bank. Therefore, the more complete your profile, the better your chances of being referred to a job that meets your expectations.
For associations nothing has changed, we will continue to refer your name to a future employer as usual . You will receive the same services as previously.
We have obtained a referral permit from the Ministry of Labor giving us the right to continue to propose members of our union.
Just like you, we have to go ahead with those technologies and registered on the online service of the CCQ.
You have received a correspondence from the CCQ with the instructions to register on their WEB site. We recommend that you register immediately.
Access the CCQ’S ON LINE SERVICES and get your PIN number quickly. If you have any problems you may call the client services in: Montreal 514-341-2686, outside Montreal : 1-888 842-8282, there will be a person to help you to complete your application.
Since each trade is subdivided into specific tasks. You may remove the checkmarks in front of some of them to indicate that you don’t want to be referred for jobs that involve these tasks. You may also specify other information like:
Don’t forget you must register prior to September 9th 2013.
Laurent Talbot
Quebec’s French cultural and linguistic heritage makes it unique among Canadian provinces. It also boasts a distinctive system of labor law that prioritizes workers’ right to collectively bargain, making it one of the most unionized jurisdictions in North America. More than 40 percent of all Quebec workers are union members, a rate that runs even higher in the construction industry, which is almost wholly unionized.
But the more 1,000 IBEW construction members in the province face a discriminatory job market that gives the rival Quebec Federation of Labour (FTQ) a near monopoly over hiring and placement on construction projects.
Says Montreal Local 568 Business Manager Laurent Talbot:
The FTQ ends up deciding who gets to work, which is unfair to members of other construction unions
But Talbot says he is hopeful about recent proposed changes to the labor code that would break the FTQ’s monopoly on hiring and open up the labor market to other construction unions. The biggest change would allow all Quebec unions to make manpower recommendations to the provincial government for placement on projects.
Quebec labor law in also unique in that is gives all construction workers the opportunity to switch unions every three years. The union that gets the most support wins the right to bargain with the contractors association, setting wage rates and working standards for all employees. Balloting begins in June and Talbot says the IBEW is mobilizing to recruit new members across the province when campaigning begins next May.
The Brotherhood’s biggest selling point, says Talbot, is:
We can work anywhere in Canada because we are part of an international union, which makes the building trades unique compared to other Quebec construction unions.
Attending his first International Convention, Talbot says he values the opportunity to meet with IBEW leaders from across North America to strategize about the future of the union movement in the electrical industry.
The situation he faces in Quebec is different from what other delegates must face, he says, but the IBEW’s goals are the same no matter where you are:
There is a strong anti-union wave across Canada and the United States and meeting with brothers and sisters to chart a course forward for our Brotherhood is a great opportunity.