Local Executive Board, Trustees and Staff

The Executive Board - consists of all the elected Officers and is expanded by official action of the Board to give more adequate representation to the membership. The expansion allows most of the sub-local operations certified to the Local Union to have a member sit on the Board. As per the Local Union Bylaws, the Sub-Local must have a membership of 10 or more to have a seat on the Executive Board.

• Trustees: there are three Trustees elected by the membership to exercise general supervision over the property of the Local Union.
• Staff: there is staff member hired by the Local to do the day-to-day office administration.

Board Members:

• HG Insurance Stacey Schultz; 
• Canfor Woodlands: Dave Reeve
• StellerVista Credit Union (East): Ellen Vandaelle
• StellerVista Credit Union (West): Emily Hamilton
• Interfor, Castlegar Jimmy Dhaliwal; 
• Nelson & District Credit Union: Heather Gingras
• Canfor Radium: Miranda Hegan
• Kimberley Alpine Resort: Vacant
• Kootenay Savings Credit Union Kimberley: Tessa Rieberger
• Pacific Woodtech Golden: Eli Anderson
• Atco Wood Products Fruitvale: Dave Keith 
• Stella Jones - Galloway Pole Plant:  Vacant
  
• Canfor Elko: Gord Haine
• City of Kimberley - Ilo Van Gilder;
  
• Brisco Wood Preservers - River Butte Management: Vacant
• Columbia Valley Credit Union - Golden: Kaela L'Heureux
• Kootenay Savings CU Trail: Amanda Gibb
  
• Red Mountain Resort: Bruce Ferguson
  
• Kootenay Insurance Services: Tracey Gausdal / Rob Brehm
  
• Kimberley Public Library: Carmen Lazenby
• KC Recycling: Vacant 

Officers (and Board Members) of the Local:

• President Grant Farquhar - City of Kimberley (Full-time Business Agent)
• 1st Vice President Jeff Mather - Pacific Woodtech (Full-time Business Agent)
• Financial Secretary Veronica Tanner - USW Local 1-405 (Full-time Business Agent)
• 2nd Vice President Eli Anderson - Pacific Woodtech
• 3rd Vice President Gord Haine - Canfor Elko
• Recording Secretary Brittany Durning - Pacific Woodtech
• Conductor Jesse Ingram -Canfor Radium 
• Warden Joe Sekel  - Interfor Castlegar

Office Staff:

• Executive Assistant Michelle Strickland (Full-Time Staff)

Trustees:

• Tobi Cumming - StellerVista Credit Union (East)
• Jason Cleland - Canfor Elko 
• Julia Bishop - Kimberley Alpine Resort