UAW Region 8
Covers the Southeast, including Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and the following counties of Pennsylvania: Franklin, Cumberland, Adams, York.
Director: Gary Casteel
Headquarters:
151 Maddox-Simpson Parkway
Lebanon, TN 37090-5345
TEL: (615) 443-7654
FAX: (615) 443-7697
Region 8 Web site
Sub Regional Offices:
132 E.Central Avenue
Mt. Holly, NC 28120
TEL: (704) 822-0746
FAX: (704) 822-0733
1005 North Point Blvd., Suite 701
Baltimore, MD 21224-3415
TEL: (410) 284-1500
FAX: (410) 284-1610
1280 Winchester
Pkwy SE Suite 131
Smyrna, GA 30080
TEL: (770) 432-0701
FAX: (770) 432-2673
Region 8 Local Unions on the Web
Local
239
Based in Baltimore, Md., Local 239 represents 1,500 members at the GM
truck plant where they build the Astro and Safari; 350 members at Allison
Transmission and approximately 85 members at Murray, a supplier of hose
clamps for the Big Three. It is also the home local for 1,500 UAW retirees.
Local 298
Local 298 represents approximately 400 workers at Raytheon in Largo and St. Petersburg, Fla., where they make electronic communications equipment for various governmental agencies. Chartered in December 1957, the local includes 80 retired members.
Local 882
Chartered in July 1941, UAW Local 882's current membership includes some 3,000 active and 1,700 retired members. The local represents workers who make the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable at the Atlanta Assembly Plant. Local 882 members also work at Ford's and Volvo's parts distribution centers and trucking firm Excel Logistics in the Atlanta area.
Local
1413
Represents
Chrysler Electronics workers in Huntsville, Ala.
Local 1590
Chartered in 1968, Local 1590 represents workers at the General Motors Service Parts Operations facility in Martinsburg, W.V.
Local
1756 Veterans Committee
Created by the veterans committee of this Delaware local union as part
of the effort to support veterans both within and outside the union.
Local 1853
This amalgamated local in Spring Hill, Tenn., home of Saturn, represents
over 6,200 UAW members, and has a retiree membership of over 520. The
local also represents American Food and Vending cafeteria workers, Premier
cleaning and support services workers and members at Total Distribution
Systems, a supplier to Saturn.
Local
1929
Representing approximately 400 UAW salaried workers at DaimlerChrysler's
Electronics Division in Huntsville, Ala., Local 1929 also represents 52
child care workers at the UAW-DaimlerChrysler Child Development Center
located near the plant.
Local
2069
Located in Dublin, Va., Local 2069 represents hourly and salary workers
who make Volvo Class-8 road tractors at the New River Valley Plant.
Local 2195
Located
in Athens, Ala., these members make steering components for Delphi
Automotive. They're one of the largest local unions within Delphi.
Local
2278
This UAW local
is known as the Florida Education Employees' Staff Union. It represents
folks who work for teachers' unions in Florida.
Local 2807
Local 2807 represents over 600 UAW members at the Lear plant in Lebanon,
Va., who make interior injected-molded door panels, consoles and
trim for Chevy, GMC and DaimlerChrysler. They also manufacture and assemble
overhead lighting consoles, glove boxes and interior door panel bolsters
for various Toyota cars.
Local 2999
Members of Local 2999 work at the Lear Corp. plant in Strasburg, Va., where they build door panels, instrument panels, armrests and other interior trim components for General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and Nissan vehicles.
Local 3520
This amalgamated local is made up of 2,000 members who build Class 8 trucks for Freightliner in Cleveland N.C., as well as workers at the Ford parts distribution center in Mebane, N.C.
Local 5285
Based in Mount Holly, N.C., the members of UAW Local 5285 build Class
6 and 7 trucks for Freightliner. The local was chartered in 1991 and
has over 2,300 members, including 82 retirees.
Local 5286
The 800 members of Local 5286 in Gastonia, N.C., fabricate and assemble parts for Freightliner truck plants in Mt. Holly, N.C. (UAW local 5285), Cleveland, N.C. (UAW Local 3520), Portland, Ore., Charleston, S.C., and a Sterling truck plant in Canada.
Gary
Casteel was elected to a second term as director
of UAW Region 8 on June 14, 2006, at the union's 34th Constitutional
Convention in Las Vegas. He was first elected to direct the region in 2002 by delegates to the 33rd Constitutional
Convention.
A UAW member since 1988, Casteel joined Local 737 when he was hired as a pipefitter-welder at Ford Glass in Nashville. Before that he had been a member of Steamfitters-Pipefitters Local 760 in Muscle Shoals, Ala., for eight years.
He served on the Local 737 bargaining team in 1990 and 1993, and on
the negotiating team for the Modern Operating Agreement in 1992. In
addition, Casteel served as lead negotiator between the local and Ford
in 1996.
Casteel was elected vice president of the UAW-Ford Subcouncil No. 3
in 1992, and re-elected in 1996. He was elected as skilled trades representative
in 1990, and re-elected in 1993 and 1996.
Casteel was appointed to the staff of the International Union in 1997 by then-UAW President Stephen P. Yokich. He was a servicing representative for UAW members at Saturn, Ford and various independent parts firms, and to retired union members and activists in UAW CAP Councils. He has been an instructor for five years at the UAW Summer School in Region 8.
Casteel has expertise in grievance handling, arbitration, and administration of contracts and in the constitution and by-laws of local unions.
Casteel is a second-generation member of the UAW and third-generation member of Steamfitters-Pipefitters Local 760. His father, the late Ray Casteel, was chairman of UAW Local 255 in Florence, Ala.; was a national negotiator in 1967, and served as an international representative for 23 years.
Casteel is a member of the Democratic Party and the NAACP, and is a nonfaculty football coach at Cheatham County Middle School.
He was born Dec. 15, 1957, in Florence, Ala. Gary and his wife, Penny, were married in 1984, and have three children, Laura Frances, Clinton Reed and Benjamin Ray. They live in Ashland City, Tenn., and belong to the Ashland City United Methodist Church.