About CIRB

CIRB Members

Norman Rivard

Member

Mr. Norman Rivard is a full-time member of the CIRB serving as an employee representative.

Mr. Rivard was the Chair of the Steelworkers - Industrial Wood and Allied Workers of Canada (I.W.A.) Council. He held positions as both Vice President and National President of the former I.W.A., was a union president in Northern Ontario, and he was also a member of an executive board, which established and oversaw the policy and administration of the national union. Mr. Rivard became active in union committees when he first began working as a machine operator for Rexwood Products in 1967. He is a certified Canadian Labour Congress union education instructor.