BOILERMAKERS - Key Persons
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- Media Contact
- Director - Communications Department
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- Vice President
- International Vice - President Canada
Arnie Stadnick is the Boilermakers' International Vice President for Canada.
In 1982, he indentured as an apprentice at Local 146 (Edmonton, Alberta). He served a three-year Boilermaker apprenticeship, after which he secured his journeyman ticket in 1986. Stadnick worked in both the ISO and CSO divisions serving as an apprentice, journeyman, job steward, foreman, general foreman and superintendent on various job sites.
In 2005, he began working for Local 146 as a business rep and assistant business manager. L- 146 members elected him business manager/secretary-treasurer in 2011 and again in 2013.
Stadnick joined the staff in 2015 as an International Rep. In 2017, he was appointed as the Canadian Director - ISO and Assistant to the Director - ISO. Stadnick graduated from the Harvard Trade Union Program in 2017.
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- Market President - East Region
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- Director of Government Affairs - Political and Legislative Departments
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- International Vice - President Great Lakes
- International Vice President - Great Lakes Section
- International Vice President of the Great Lakes Section
Dan Sulivan is International Vice President of the Great Lakes Section. Prior to being unanimously elected by the International Executive Council to serve as IVP-Great Lakes, Sulivan served as Local 374 (Hobart, Indiana) Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer since 2017. He was sworn in as IVP on Oct. 1, 2023.
Sulivan began his welding career learning welding and metal trades skills as a Navy Seabee. His father was a Seabee, and Sulivan enlisted straight out of high school to follow his father's footsteps.
After his military career, he took a job at a local nonunion shop, and in 2002, he saw a Boilermakers' newspaper ad seeking welders. He answered the ad, went on a job, took a make-or-break test and never looked back.
After graduating from apprenticeship in 2006, he later served L-374 as a lodge inspector, sergeant at arms and vice president before being elected BM-ST.
"I hope to make proud the retirees and those who went before me, helped me along the way and paved the way for new leaders like me," he says. "I will always maintain the Seabee ‘Can Do' spirit. There's nothing we can't do, and that's what I'm going to bring to the table: Don't take ‘no' for an answer, find a way through challenges and find a solution."
Sulivan, who is married and the father of one boy and four girls, has also been an advocate to women in the trades and to NABTU's Tradeswomen Build Nations program. He is Second-Vice President for the Indiana State Building Trades and is an Industrial Sector Vice President for the Northern Indiana Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.
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- Director - National Transient Division Services / Assistant Director - Construction
- Director of National Transient Division Services and Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations
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- Director - Boilermaker History Preservation Department
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- Director - IPO Information Technology Core Support Services
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- Director - Research and Collective Bargaining Services / Assistant Director - Industrial Sector Operations
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- National Coordinator of Women in the Trades Initiative - Marketing, Organizing, Recruitment and Employment Work Investment Fund
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- Director - Shipbuilding and Metal Trade Services / Assistant Director - Industrial Sector Operations
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- Field Construction Worker
- International Vice - President Western States
- International Vice President - Western Section
- Trustee to the Boilermaker - Blacksmith National Pension Trust
J. Tom Baca began his Boilermaker career as a field construction worker in 1969. A member of Local 549 (Pittsburg, California), Baca worked his way up the ranks, from steward to job superintendent, earning an appointment as an assistant business manager in 1994. He has served as both trustee and chairman of trustees on the Local 549 executive board and became business manager/secretary-treasurer for Local 549 in March 2005.
A third-generation Boilermaker, Baca has been president of both the Contra Costa Building Trades and Central Labor Council, and a member of the executive board for that area's NAACP chapter.
Baca was appointed union trustee to the Boilermaker-Blacksmith National Pension Trust in 2005. He also served on the Law Committee for the 31st Consolidated Convention in July 2006.
On February 1, 2007, he became International vice president of the Western States.
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- Executive Director - Industrial Sector Operations
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- Director - National Training Services ( CSO ) Assistant Director - Construction
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- Great Lakes Organizing Coordinator ( ISO ) - Marketing, Organizing, Recruitment and Employment Work Investment Fund
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- Director - Railroad Lodge Services / Assistant Director - Industrial Sector Operations
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- Secretary
- Trustee
- Vice President
- Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations
- International Vice - President Northeast
- International Vice President - Northeast Section
John Fultz is the Boilermakers' International Vice President for the Northeast Section.
He began his career in 1974 as an apprentice with Boilermakers Local 175, Oswego, New York (now Local 5, Zone 175), and graduated as a journeyman in 1978.
He worked as a field construction Boilermaker until 1997, when he was elected Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer of L-175.
In 2004, Fultz became a Construction Division International Rep while also working as L-175 BM-ST. He moved to a full-time rep position in 2008.
Fultz was appointed Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations in 2009. After eight years in that position, he was appointed Executive Director - CSO and Assistant Director of Administrative Affairs of the International President. He was also appointed Special Assistant to the International President. He held the ED-CSO position for only a short time before being elected IVP-NE.
Fultz also serves as a trustee and secretary on the boards of the Boilermakers National Health and Welfare Fund and the Boilermaker-Blacksmith National Pension Trust. In addition, he serves on the Joint Committee on Administration for the National Funds.
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- Manager of Internal Auditing Services
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- International Secretary - Treasurer for the International Brotherhood
Kathy Stapp is International Secretary-Treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. Prior to being unanimously elected to this role in August 2023, she served as Administrative Assistant to the International Secretary-Treasurer and as Director of Human Resources and Benefits Programs. Stapp has had a long and diverse career at the union, which has provided her with incredible knowledge of the organization, its structure, history and policies. She began in 1994, originally working as a "floater" covering the switchboard and mail room and eventually working in the Accounting Department. After a hiatus in 1999, Stapp rejoined the Boilermakers' staff in 2008 in the International Secretary-Treasurer's office, and over the years there has evolved her responsibilities and career to her current position. Stapp is a member of Local 627 (Phoenix). She earned her bachelor's degree in marketing, with a minor in English, from Kansas State University and the University of San Diego.
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- Director - IPO Information Technology Staff Support Services
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- Administrator
- Director - Health & Safety Services
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- Executive Director - Construction Sector Operations Director - National Construction
- Executive Director of Construction Sector Operations Division
Monte Causey - Director of Construction Division Services, Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations, Director of National Recruitment Services and Assistant to the International President, Executive Director of Quality Control Council of the United States
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- National Coordinator of State Legislative Affairs - Marketing, Organizing, Recruitment and Employment Work Investment Fund
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- Director - Construction Division Services Director - National Recruitment Services ( CSO )
- Director of Construction
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- Director of Human Resources
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- Director - Canadian Industrial Sector Operations Lodge Services / Assistant Director - Industrial Sector Operations
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- Assistant Director - National Transient Division Services
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- Director - Cement Lodge Services
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- Director - Internet Web Services
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- International Vice - President Southeast
- International Vice President - Southeast Section
Timothy Simmons began his Boilermaker career on a boiler outage in 1999, working out of Boilermakers Local 108, in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Alabama Power Miller Steam Plant. Brother Simmons considers it an honor to have been able to serve his Brothers and Sisters in many different roles, including as a Local 108 Business Agent/Secretary Treasurer, District Lodge #3 Officer, Director of National Recruitment Services, Director of Construction Division Services and Assistant to the International President.
In October 2022, the International Executive Council voted unanimously to elect Brother Simmons to fill the IVP-Southeast Section vacancy, effective February 1, 2023, upon the retirement of Warren Fairley. In addition to his role as IVP-Southeast Section, he serves as Executive Director of Construction Sector Operations, Chief of Staff and Special Assistant to the International President.
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- Coordinator of IPO Administrative Affairs
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- International President of the International Brotherhood
Warren Fairley is the International President of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and a 32-year member of Local 693 (Pascagoula, Mississippi). Prior to a brief retirement, he most recently served as International Vice President for the Southeast Section. He began his career in 1990 working in the rigging department at Ingalls Shipbuilding and was elected L-693 business manager in 1996. He became an International Rep at the completion of his term, and in 2003, he was made Assistant to the International President and Assistant Director of the Shipbuilding Division. One month later, he was promoted to Deputy Director of that division, and in 2005, he became Executive Assistant to the International President and Director of the Shipbuilding and Marine Services Division. In 2007, Fairley was elected International Vice President-At-Large for the Industrial Sector, a position he held until October 2010, when he was elected to the office of International Vice President for the Southeast Section. Fairley has served as an International Vice President on the AFL-CIO's Executive Council since 2018.