Warren Fairley continues to serve as IVP for Southeast Section
BY A MAJORITY vote of the International Executive Council (IEC), James A. Pressley has been elected International Vice President-at-Large, Industrial Sector Operations (ISO), effective Oct. 28.
In his new role, IVP Pressley will support the regional IVPs in their servicing of lodges with members in non-construction industries (shipbuilding, railroad, cement, stove, metal, mining, boiler shop, forging, and manufacturing). Pressley’s role as Executive Director of ISO has been elevated to an IVP position. He will also retain his position as Director of Administrative Affairs of the International President.
IVP Warren Fairley, who will remain IVP for the Southeast Section, explained, “Jim Pressley is uniquely qualified to represent industrial sector lodges. This change ensures that both the Southeast Section and lodges in the Industrial Sector will continue to be well represented on the IEC, and is consistent with the directive we got from the 2006 Consolidated Convention to reduce costs.”
Warren Fairley will also continue to serve as Executive Assistant to the International President. IVP’s Fairley and Pressley will share the roles of liaison with the Metal Trades Department and other AFL-CIO affiliate structures and the Boilermakers’ representative with the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM), as these roles continue to evolve.
Pressley began his Boilermaker career in 1962, when he joined Local 900 (Barberton, Ohio), a boiler manufacturing lodge. He served in various lodge leadership positions and was elected president in 1988.
From 1994 until 2006, Pressley served as International Rep for the Great Lakes region. He was appointed Assistant to the Director of the Research and Collective Bargaining Services Department in 2005 and promoted to Director in 2006.
In 2007, he was named Director of the newly formed Industrial Sector Services Department. The following year, he was appointed Executive Director of Industrial Sector Operations and Director of Administrative Affairs of the International President.
“Jim’s long service to the Brotherhood has been exemplary,” said International President Newton B. Jones. “I am confident that his extensive leadership experience with our industrial lodges — in particular his work as Executive Director of Industrial Sector Operations — will serve our members well as he assumes the duties of International Vice President-at-Large for this sector.”
