Training facilitators and Executive Officers join 18 new lodge officers for a commemorative photo during the 2023 New Officers Training session.
Eighteen new lodge officers from Canada and the U.S. met in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 10-12 for training to prepare for their leadership roles. This was the first in-person lodge officer training since before the pandemic, with the last session taking place online in 2020.
Training covered a legal overview, the IBB structure, education and training services, policies and procedures, Industrial Sector and Construction Sector Operations, the National Transient Division, local lodge bylaws, financial and membership reporting, Boilermaker craft jurisdiction, national agreements and specialty agreements, construction safety and health, local joint referral rules and the MOST Boilermaker Delivery System.
Participants also learned about the M.O.R.E. Work Investment Fund, next generation energy, political and legislative affairs, state apprenticeship, communication skills, the Boilermakers History Preservation Department, the Boilermakers National Funds, NACBE, Common Arc and Bank of Labor.
In a separate breakout session, Canadian attendees were given Canada-specific insight on project labor agreements, as well as provincial labor boards and jurisdictional assignment plans.
Lodge leaders attending were: Marshall Wright, L-4 BM-ST (Page, Arizona); Brad Mickatavage, L-13 BM-ST (Philadelphia); David Addison, L-28 BM-ST (Newark, New Jersey); Christopher Varnado, L-37 BM-ST (New Orleans), Donald Sammons, L-40 BM-ST (Elizabethtown, Kentucky); Jean Leblanc, L-73 BM-ST (Halifax, Nova Scotia); Casey Jensen, L-83 BM-ST (Kansas City, Missouri); Robert Gallegos, L-101 BM-ST (Denver); Stirling Munn, L-128 BM-ST (Toronto, Ontario); Mackenzie Walker, L-146 BM-ST (Edmonton, Alberta); Michael Stanton, L-154 BM (Pittsburgh); Robert Moore, L-203 BM-ST (St. John, Newfoundland); David Widdicombe, L-242 BM-ST (Spokane, Washington); Brad Sievers, L-374 BM-ST (Hobart, Indiana); Randy Thomas, L-549 BM-ST (Pittsburg, California); Jody Thomas, L-555 BM-ST (Winnipeg, Manitoba); Zachary Popovich, Lone Start District Lodge DBM/ES; Johnny Baca, L-2080 NTD Lodge BA.
