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In the year of 2000, if you were registered with WCB under the Manual Tree Fallers classification unit, your assessment rates were about to sky rocket; putting a lot of contract fallers in the poor house and making it financially impossible for someone to set up a company under this CU. This was not right. Initial meetings were set up between the Fallers, WCB and Industry Reps to discuss this matter. The Western Fallers Association was spawned to give us a politically correct voice at these meetings. The final outcome, after nearly two years of meetings, a lot of lobbying by us throughout the Forest Industry and countless written submissions, was that the rate structure was reversed; taking approximately ten million dollars of assessments, annually, off the shoulders of the Independent/ Contract Falling community and putting it back on Industry, where it belongs.
The Western Fallers Association is currently governed by a ten person Board of Directors; all are active fallers and come from areas throughout the province of B.C. There is also a Chairman, Secretary/Treasurer and a Recording Secretary. Our constitution was registered with the Province on June 24, 2002 and we chose to adopt and continue to operate under the Bylaws set out in chapter 433, schedule B of the British Columbia Societies Act.
To date, the WFA gives its members representation with all the divisions of Worksafe BC, the four Logging Associations operating in the province, the Steelworkers, Licensees, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Forests, Chief Coroners Office and BC Timber Sales.
We were involved with the Provincial Forest Safety Task Force as well as the Implementation Team that came out of that. The WFA was a founding member of the BC forest Safety Council and currently holds a seat on their Board of Directors, representing the Fallers of BC.
Regional Representatives on the Board
Mike Mckibbin
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Chairman |
Mack Schat
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Secretary/Treasurer |
Patricia Smart
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Recording Secretary |
Mike Roth
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Campbell River |
| Aaron Frye |
Coldstream |
Jordan Nicolussi
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Prince George |
Dominic Gagnon
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Terrace |
Bill Boardman
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Sooke |
Terry Greaves
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Courtenay |
Ken Swetlikoff
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Enderby |
Patricia Smart
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Terrace |
Glen Erickson
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Nelson |
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