{"id":204321,"date":"2021-06-28T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=204321"},"modified":"2021-06-28T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:30:17","slug":"uaws-no-2-curry-follows-gamble-as-union-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2021\/06\/uaws-no-2-curry-follows-gamble-as-union-president\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW\u2019s No. 2 Curry Follows Gamble as Union President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United Auto Workers executive board tapped Ray Curry to succeed Rory Gamble as President of the United Auto Workers starting July 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry succeeds Rory Gamble as president.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Curry,\u00a055,\u00a0will\u00a0serve out\u00a0the remainder of Gamble\u2019s term<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/strong>, which expires at the UAW\u2019s next constitutional convention tentatively scheduled for June 2022. Curry has been a member of the union\u2019s executive board since 2014 and was elected to serve as\u00a0the\u00a0union\u2019s secretary-treasurer, the union\u2019s number two office, in\u00a0June\u00a02018.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he was elected secretary-treasurer on a slate headed by now disgraced UAW president Gary Jones, Curry was never implicated in the scandal that led to prison sentences for a dozen UAW officers and staff members since 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another new face in top spot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Curry, left, was elected to his current post in 2018 with former President Gary Jones. Curry’s never been implicated in the scandal tied to Jones.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe elected leadership of the entire International Executive Board has been tasked to build, grow and strengthen our union and take the next exciting steps for our members and the working men and women of this nation,\u201d said Curry in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is much to be done. It is time to put our nose to the grindstone in Solidarity and lead this union into a future of new possibilities,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curry stressed there are significant challenges ahead but underscored the union is in a strong position to meet them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndustry is at a crossroads right now with massive changes in\u00a0new innovative technologies<\/u><\/strong>,<\/span>\u201d he said. \u201cIt will be up to us to navigate through<\/a> this monumental shift in mobility and manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curry’s been active in expanding the union’s membership ranks.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd certainly, our priority \u2014 and my priority \u2014 is to grow our membership across all sectors, and new sectors, including gaming, higher education, public health, parts suppliers and auto transnationals. Whether in Charleston, South Carolina, Alabama, New York, or California, these workers and educators all deserve a voice in the workplace, and it is our duty to make that happen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already involved in systemic change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A North Carolina native, Curry worked as an assembler at Freightliner Trucks in Mount Holly, North Carolina before being hired to the UAW staff in 2004. He has served on the UAW executive board for the past seven years, after he was elected Regional Director of UAW Region 8.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curry is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Charlotte with a B.S. in Business Administration\/Finance and an MBA from the University of Alabama. He served three years on active duty in the U.S. Army and five years in the U.S. Army Reserves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Gamble, Curry\u2019s helped try to tighten up the union\u2019s financial reporting and record keeping, which was easily manipulated by Jones and other union officials during the scandal.\u00a0He is currently\u00a0responsible for negotiations with Volvo Truck<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0where UAW members are now on strike. Union members at the plant in Dublin, Virginia have twice rejected by overwhelming margins tentative contracts brought to them by the negotiating team headed by\u00a0Curry, leaving\u00a0the increasingly bitter dispute deadlocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Auto Workers executive board tapped Ray Curry to succeed Rory Gamble as President of the United Auto Workers starting July 1. Curry was previously the secretary-treasurer, the union\u2019s No. 2 position. The North Carolina native started with Freightliner in Mount Holly, N.C. before being hired as UAW staff in 2004, reports TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":204325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[914,7,5,1164],"tags":[1300,1299,344,512,1298],"make":[],"post-state":[335],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204331,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204321\/revisions\/204331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204321"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=204321"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=204321"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=204321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}