Business Agents

Business Agent Lines

Brian O'Rourke President

Phone: 1 (250) 960-8583
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

Safety Director
Administration
Health and Welfare Trustee
Job Evaluation
LTD Trustee
Negotiations
PGTA
SHARP Trustee
Wood Council

Paul French 1st Vice President

Phone: 1 (250) 398-0329
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

WF Plywood WL
WL Quesnel Plywood
Atlantic Power
WF Truckers
Tolko Questwood
Dunkley Lumber
Negotiations
SHARP Trustee
Right of Reference
Economic Development
Health & Welfare Trustee

Rod Park 2nd Vice President

Phone: 1 (250) 960-8745
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

Health and Welfare Trustee
Right of Reference
Canfor Plateau
Conifex Fort St James
Stella Jones
W.F Fraser Lake
Veolia Energy
Lakelands

Dan Will 3rd Vice President

Phone: 1 (250) 613-9451
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

Canfor Chetwynd
Canfor Energy Plants
Canfor Ft. St. John
Conifex Mackenzie & Power
Fort Motors
Louisiana Pacific
Mount Polley

Mark Bissat 4th Vice President

Phone: 1 (250) 267-4553
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

100 Mile Sawmill
Beamac
CCDS
Electric Operations
IHA WL & 100
Parallel
Red Coach Inn
Tolko Lakeview
Tolko Soda Creek
WF Planer
Job Evaluations

Don Iwaskow Financial Secretary

Phone: 1 (250) 961-8809
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

Office Manager
Education Director
Health and Welfare Trustee
Excel
Sharp Trustee

Boota Johal Business Agent

Phone: 1 (250) 960-8863
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

Babine
Canfor Houston
Canfor Isle Pierre
Carrier Lumber
Coast Mountain
Electrical Operations - PG & Quesnel
Houston Pellet
PG Motors
Wood Wheaton

Brad Mores Business Agent

Phone: 1 (250) 305-5091
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 565-3641
Email:

Canfor - Chip Plant
Canfor - Nursery
Canfor - PG Sawmill
Canfor - Polar
Worksafe Advocate

Our Union

Recent News

Employment Opportunities

POSTED: Dec 6, 2019

Employment Opportunities in PRINCE GEORGE, KAMLOOPS, and KELOWNA

The BC Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking individuals interested in working as an Overhead Door Technician. Please click the link below for more information.

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Former Wolverine Mine (Walter Energy) Employees - Severance Pay

POSTED: Dec 5, 2019

December 4, 2019

ATTENTION: WALTER ENERGY MEMBERS

RE: WALTER ENERGY SEVERANCE PAY! IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!

The Local Union is happy to share this latest update with all of you. The Court Appointed Monitor which makes the payments to people that Walter Energy and Wolverine Mine owed money to is starting to process cheques to pay the termination and severance pay that our members are owed.

Conifex Fort St James Overview

POSTED: Nov 15, 2019

The current CONIFEX Sawmill in Fort St. James was first owned and operated by Takla Forest Products. When they started, they employed 350 hourly workers and 40 staff, plus Forestry technicians. The operation consisted of Planers, Studmill, Dimension Mill and Veneer Plant.

Forest Workers Support Program Pays Dividends

POSTED: Sep 25, 2019

September 24, 2019

For Immediate Release

FOREST WORKERS SUPPORT PROGRAM PAYS DIVIDENDS

(Prince George, BC) USW Local 1-2017 President Brian O'Rourke expressed surprise and shock at the comments some Interior mayors and others are making regarding the diversion of funding from the Economic Dividends Fund to new Forest Workers Support Programs.

Government outlines New Forest Support Programs

POSTED: Sep 17, 2019

PRINCE GEORGE - The provincial government has announced $69 million to fund a new series of measures aimed at supporting British Columbia forest workers impacted by mill closures and shift reductions in several B.C. Interior communities

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