Field of Membership

  ** As of August 2008 Shell Western States Federal Credit Union offers membership to Employees of Shell Oil Martinez and any person who lives, works, worships, volunteers, has a business or attends school in the city of Martinez.

The field of membership shall be in accordance with the by laws as follows:

"The field of membership shall be limited to those having the following common bond: Employees of the Shell Oil Company, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries who work in the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Nevada who are not eligible for membership in another occupational type credit union: employees of the Henkel Corporation who work at the Shell Point Plant in Pittsburg, California: employees of Western Farms Service, Telfer Oil Company, Diamond Services Company, S & S Tools, Westco Distributing and McJunkin Corporation, Golden Gate Petroleum, Criterion Catalyst Company, Triton Biosciences and unremarried spouses of persons who died while within the field of membership of this credit union: employees of this credit union: persons retired as pensioners or annuitants from the above employment: members of their immediate families: and organizations of such persons, provided, however, that this field of membership shall not include any employees of 500 or more employees who work in or are assigned to any city or town work location not specifically named above, but the employees in any group disqualified by this exclusion may be considered within this field of membership for not more than one year after the group is so qualified."