BCTGM General Executive Board Elects New International Secretary Treasurer
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20 Apr BCTGM General Executive Board Elects New International Secretary Treasurer

Posted at 16:34h in General Executive Board, International Staff by

On April 16, 2020, the General Executive Board (GEB) unanimously elected David Woods to serve as BCTGM International Secretary-Treasurer.

On December 6, 2019, the General Executive Board elected Woods as the Southern Region International Vice President.

Woods became a member of the BCTGM Local 165G (Knoxville, Tenn.) in August 1989 when he went to work at White Lilly Foods Co. as a maintenance mechanic. Woods served as the Principle Officer of Local 165G until the Local merged into Local 25 (Chattanooga, Tenn.) in 2004 and he was elected as Assistant Business Agent of the newly merged Local Union.

In 2007, Woods was elected Business Agent/Financial Secretary of Local 25, a position he served until 2012 when International President Frank Hurt named him as a Southern Region International Representative.

While he was a local union officer, David served as a Trustee of the Chattanooga Central Labor Council and Committee Member of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Central Labor Council. He has a long and active history serving various roles with the United Way and the Boy Scouts of America.

In 2017, Woods graduated from the Harvard Trade Union Program.
Trade unionism runs in Woodโ€™s blood. His father, Harold Woods, was President of the Tennessee AFL-CIO and his mother, Sylvia, was a local and regional leader for the Office and Professional Employees Union.

GEB Elects Zach Townsend as Southern Region Vice President

The GEB elected Zach Townsend to serve as Southern Region Vice President, to complete the unexpired term of Woods.

Townsend became a member of Local 42 (Atlanta) in 1998 when he began working at Sonoco Products. In 1990, he was elected as a shop steward and several years later, he was elected as Chief Shop Steward, a position he served for more than 15 years.

Townsend served as a member of Local 42โ€™s Executive Board, representing the members of Sonoco Products. In 2008, he was elected as the Vice President of Local 42. In the middle of his term, Townsend stepped in to serve as Local 42 President when an auto accident forced the retirement of the elected Local 42 President. In 2010, Townsend was appointed to Local 42 Business Agent, a position he served until December 2014 when he became Business Manager of Local 42.

In May 2018, International President David Durkee appointed Townsend as a Southern Region International Representative.



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