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Ice Storm of the Century

In January 1998, five days of freezing rain fell in some parts of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. About 2 million homes, more than 5 million people, were plunged into darkness for up to a month in the dead of winter. It was, indisputably, the storm of the century. The IBEW is proud of it's many members and contractors that bonded together to assist in the massive task of rebuilding after the storm. This culminated an exhausting and intensive effort with the participation of dedicated members from all across Canada. A book titled "The Ice Storm" was published and is a historical record in photographs of January 1998. (with text by Mark Abley; ISBN 0-7710-6100-5). If you have not already had the opportunity to thumb through this book, please make an effort to do so. Just a suggestion, this would be an excellent coffee table book and would definitely create a lot of conversation. The book not only illustrates the devastation that was caused by the storm, but it has a multitude of exciting and interesting photographs of people and nature. Incidentally, to view members of Local 353 in action, refer to chapter five "Men of Power," page 135.

 
     
     
  BROTHER Steve Driscoll's Artwork
A compilation of prints created by Steve Driscoll, a lineman and self taught artist from Ottawa Canada. These prints are created with supreme accuracy and detail using pencil as a medium depicting the common work situations we face every day to maintain the supply of power.
  
     
  International Lineman's
Rodeo & Expo
  
     
  Powerlineman - Powerlineman Mall, Vendors, Pictures and more . . .  
     
  ELINEMAN - Where Linemen and the Internet collide . . .  
     
  Journeyman Lineman - "To those who build ... and maintain the Electric Power Grid Worldwide."  
     
  LINE-MAN.COM - Journeyman, Lineman, Power, Electrical, CATV & Telephone.
"If you chase wires for a living, this site's for you!"		  

 
LINE & UTILITY SECTOR

Excerpt from the Principal Agreement

This Agreement shall apply to any Contractor whose business includes the installation and/or maintenance of overhead and buried electrical distribution systems in the Province of Ontario and where the work is not included within the Industrial, Commercial, Institutional Sector of the Construction Industry.

Scope

For the purposes of this Agreement it is understood and agreed by both parties that the work shall be all types of high voltage installations including (but not limited to) transmission lines, power lines, substations, high tension cable installations and forestry. It shall also include street and highway lighting, underground and overhead line type distribution systems at lower voltages and communication, telephone and T.V. systems and any civil work required in the performance of any of the above work as well as any other line type work coming within the scope of the IBEW Constitution and falling within the following Sectors of the Construction Industry:

Residential (excluding highrise apartment houses)

Sewers and Watermains
Roads Heavy Engineering
Pipeline
Electrical Power Systems (excluding work covered by agreement between EPSCA and the IBEW-EPSCCO) on projects and transmission systems.

Inside Work

All electrical signs, all street electrical decorations when no messenger or guy wire is necessary for support. Installation, construction, inspection, operation, maintenance and repair of all electrical work in isolated plants and within property lines of any given property, and beginning at the secondary side of the transformer, except line work consisting of poles and towers, including wires or cables and other apparatus supported therefrom and except all outdoor substations as defined in Outside Work hereof. When aerial wires or cables are used to provide electrical current for buildings or structures within the property lines of any given property, the inside men's jurisdiction shall start immediately after the first point of attachment of such aerial wires or cables to such buildings or structures.

Outside Work

All work necessary to the assembling, installation, erection, operation, maintenance, repair, control, inspection and supervision of all electrical apparatus, devices, wires, cables, supports, insulators, conductors, ducts and raceways when part of distributing systems outside of buildings, railroads and outside the directly related railroad property and yards. Installing and maintaining the catenary and trolley work on railroad property, and bonding of rails. All underground ducts and cables when they are installed by and are part of the system of a distributing company, except in power stations during new construction, including ducts and cables to adjacent switch racks or substations. All outdoor substations and electrical connections up to and including the setting of transformers and the connecting of the secondary buses thereto.

Employee Classification (Supersedes Section 6)

Employees shall be divided into the following classes:

Journeyman Lineman - Splicer
Groundman/Equipment Operator 1st, 2nd, 3rd yr
Groundman Driver; 1st and 2nd year
Groundman; 1st and 2nd year
Utilityman
Forester
Apprentices 1st to 4th periods


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