0440 Local Union

To establish and maintain an adequate wage for our labor; to require of our members skills, intelligence and character; to protect Local Union 440 of the international brotherhood of electrical workers, riverside county, California. To protect our contractors from the unskilled and inexperienced worker; to protect and aid our unemployed, distressed and sick members; to defend our rights and advance our interests as electrical workers by all lawful means; to aid and encourage all honorable efforts that will better the conditions of labor; and to make our card and seal a certificate of fraternity. To organize workers coming within the jurisdiction of this Local Union; to secure improved wages, hours and working conditions and other economic advances through organization, negotiation and collective bargaining; to encourage a high standard of skills among our members; to protect the jurisdiction of our trade; to engage in culture, civic, legislative, political, fraternal, educational, char