About us

Executive & Stewards

Cupe Local 1656 Executives

Phil Dominas – President

519-504-3976

pdominas1656@gmail.com

Work Location: 100 Maple Grove Rd. OPS.

 

Brett Smith – Vice President

519-503-3507

bsmithcupe1656@gmail.com

Work Location: 2069 Ottawa St. S. Mannheim Water Treatment Plant.

 

Adam Simon – Treasurer / Union Co-Chair Job Evaluation

519-502-0176

asimon1656@gmail.com

Work Location: 100 Maple Grove Rd. OPS.

 

Mike Hepditch – Chief Steward

519-502-8951

mhepditch1656@gmail.com

Work Location: 75 New Germany Ln. Region of Waterloo International Airport.

 

Andre Caza – Recording Secretary

519-501-9412

andrec1656@gmail.com

Work Location: 925 Erb St. W. Waste Management.

 

Trustees

Debbie Brighton
Yvonne Rumleskie
Blake Smith

 

Stewards

  • South Yard – Don Draper
  • North Yard – Phil Dominas
  • Philipsburg Yard – N/A
  • Traffic – Josh Massy
  • Water Scada – Ken Fairhall
  • Water Maintenance Group – Brett Smith
  • Building Operations – Phil Dominas
  • Facilities Maintenance Ops. –  
  • Fleet Services – Adam Simon
  • GRT Stores – Kodie Williams
  • Airport – Jordan Martin
  • Waterloo Landfill – Andre Caza
  • Waterloo Scales, Cambridge Landfill – Andre Caza

 

 

Committees

SOCIAL COMMITTEE

Yvonne Rumleskie, Rebecca Schroeder

These members arrange and conduct all social and recreational activities as well as wellness and bereavement functions of the Local.

HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE

Kris Paynter, Andre Caza, Will VanderWiel

Members of the Health and Safety Committee identify, evaluate and recommend resolutions to all matters pertaining to health and safety in the workplace ensuring that all members are knowledgable in their rights, restrictions, responsibilities and duties under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

JJEC COMMITTEE
Adam Simon-Union Co-Chair, Marc Yarascavich
The Job Evaluation/Maintenance Committee members ensure that our members are being treated and compensated fairly for the work they do.

What we do

We are the workers that take care of and monitor your clean drinking water, garbage collection, keep your roads safe for travel, move travellers to and from Waterloo Region Airport.  These are just a few of the many things that we strive for excellence to achieve on a daily basis.

We are proud to work for you.
We care for your children. We keep your water clean. We keep restaurants safe for you.
We help our neighbours find jobs, obtain housing and get financial support when they’re in need.
We proudly deliver the public services all of us in the Region depend on every day.
We work for you, Region of Waterloo.

CUPE 1656 represents outside workers for the Region of Waterloo & The Township of North Dumfries as our Sub local, that service these areas

  • Manhiem
  • St. Agatha
  • Petersburg
  • Heidelberg/St. Jacobs
  • Elmira
  • Philipsburg
  • Cambridge
  • Kitchener/Waterloo
  • New Hamburg/Baden
  • Ayr
  • Breslau
  • New Dundee
  • St. Mary’s
  • Bamberg
  • St. Clements
  • Floradale