Executive and stewards
This is your 2025-2026 Executive:
President: Vicki Brooke
Vice-President: Chloe Austin
Unit Vice-President: Kevin Hodges (Town of Berwick L2618-03)
Unit Vice-President: Greg Messom (Village of New Minas L2618-04)
Membership Officer: Kristy Taylor
Treasurer: Laurie-Ann Clarke
Recording Secretary: Vacant (Election to be held at May Membership Meeting)
Stewards:
- Trevor Surette
- Chris Rawding
- Vicki Brooke
- Chloe Austin
- Kevin Hodges (Town of Berwick)
- Conor Roops (Town of Berwick)
- Steve Vernie (Village of New Minas)
What we do
CUPE 2618 represents over 90 municipal workers in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Our Local serves 80+ inside and outside workers at the Municipality of the County of Kings, and the outside workers at the Town of Berwick and Village of New Minas.
We provide services that keep your communities going: from maintaining infrastructure, providing water and wastewater services, and public facilities, to delivering administrative support, and community programs.
By working together through a Union, we ensure fair wages, safe working conditions, and a voice in decisions that affect our jobs and the public we serve.
Equality statement
Union solidarity is based on the principle that union members are equal and deserve mutual respect at all levels. Any behaviour that creates conflict prevents us from working together to strengthen our union.
As unionists, mutual respect, cooperation and understanding are our goals. We should neither condone nor tolerate behaviour that undermines the dignity or self-esteem of any individual or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment.
Discriminatory speech or conduct which is racist, sexist, transphobic or homophobic hurts and thereby divides us. So too, does discrimination on the basis of ability, age, class, religion, language and ethnic origin.
Sometimes discrimination takes the form of harassment. Harassment means using real or perceived power to abuse, devalue or humiliate. Harassment should not be treated as a joke. The uneasiness and resentment that it creates are not feelings that help us grow as a union.
Discrimination and harassment focus on characteristics that make us different; and they reduce our capacity to work together on shared concerns such as decent wages, safe working conditions, and justice in the workplace, society and in our union.
CUPE’s policies and practices must reflect our commitment to equality. Members, staff and elected officers must be mindful that all persons deserve dignity, equality and respect.