As with all unions, the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers comes from its members.
Members elect local lodge officers and delegates to the Consolidated Conventions held every five years. At the convention, the member-elected delegates elect International officers. Delegates, local lodge officers, and International officers are all members of the union.
Member-elected convention delegates also vote on changes to the International’s Constitution, which governs the actions of all International officers, staff, local lodges, and members.
At every level, members lead the union.
Meet Our Leaders
Kathy Stapp
International Secretary-Treasurer
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.
Contact
12200 N Ambassador Dr, Suite 301
Kansas City, MO 64163
Phone: (913) 371-2640
J. Tom Baca
International Vice-President Western States
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.
Contact
1401 Willow Pass Road, Suite 870
Concord, CA 94520
Phone: (925) 798-7665
John T. Fultz
International Vice-President Northeast
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.
Contact
12200 N Ambassador Dr, Suite 333
Kansas City, MO 64163
Phone: (913) 281-8175
Arnie M. Stadnick
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.
Contact
#204, 10059 - 118th Street
Edmonton, AB, CAN T5K 0B9
Phone: (780) 483-0823
Fax: (780) 489-3043
Timothy Simmons
International Vice-President Southeast
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.
Contact
100 Country Club Drive, Suite 203
Hendersonville, TN 37075
Phone: (615) 824-2523
Fax: (615) 826-5983
Dan Sulivan
International Vice-President Great Lakes
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.
Contact
780 N Union St
Hobart, IN 46342
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