Welcome to your UAW Local 3520 website. This website was developed for our members and potential members that would also like to have respect and dignity in their workplace. Our goal is to provide informational resources needed to do our part in building a strong labor movement for our members, their families and our community.

We strive to make the workplaces we represent safe and healthy, raise the standard of living, and provide respect and dignity for workers.

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24 June 2009
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21 May 2009
UAW Local 3520 2009 General Election

2009 General Election Shop Postitions

04 May 2009
News story in Gaston Gazette on May 2, 2009 - 6:59PM by Corey Friedman "Laid-off Freightliner workers, union members protest outsourcing at Gastonia march"

GASTONIA - Fourteen-month-old Jaden Guy held his mother's hand. A sign hung around his neck with a shoelace read, "What about my future?"

The boy's mother, Gastonia resident Jonita Guy, was laid off in March from her job at Tyco Electronics in Rock Hill, S.C. She attended a Saturday morning rally organized to protest an international treaty that allows American companies to send thousands of manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

"Where's his future going to be?" she said, staring down at her son. "It scares me to think about what things are going to be like five years from now."

The United Auto Workers Local 5286 held a protest march in downtown Gastonia to voice opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which removes tariffs on imported goods. American companies capitalizing on low Mexican labor costs have relocated some U.S. jobs south of the border. Read More...

Watch NAFTA Ralley on News 14 in Gastonia, NC.

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Local 3520 E-Board Group Shot taken at July 11 2009 Union Meeting

UAW LOCAL 3520 Executive Board
(Back Row l-r) Tim Slonaker; Ford Unit Chairperson, Steve Barber; Freightliner Shop Chairman, Bill Reynolds; Freightliner PDI member at large, Edward Pickard; Metaldyne Unit Chairperson, Scott Lykins; Guide, Lowell Austin; Sgt. at Arms.
(Front Row l-r) Shayne Brown; Financial Secretary, Debra Koonts, Trustee, Tracy Nail; Recording Secretary, George Drexel IV; President, Sally Menius; Trustee, Terry Guffey, Head Trustee, Kevin D Barnett; Vice President