UAW Sec.-Treas. Ray Curry to Receive P.R. Latta Award at 61st Annual Convention

Be there when Ray Curry receives NC labor movement's highest honor

UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry will receive the 2018 P.R. Latta Rank-and-File Award for his lifetime of service building the power of North Carolina's labor movement at our 61st Annual Convention banquet on Thursday, September 20th in Raleigh.

Curry, who previously served as elected director of UAW Region 8 since 2014, joined the UAW in July 1992 when he hired in as a truck assembler at Freightliner Trucks in Mount Holly, North Carolina. While there UAW Local 5285 members elected him to many leadership positions until his appointment as an international union rep in 2004. He previously served as an executive board vice president of the North Carolina AFL-CIO, and, as a UAW member organizer, helped thousands of North Carolina workers exercise their freedom to join together in union on the 2003 and 2004 Freightliner organizing drives in Cleveland, Gastonia and High Point, North Carolina.

What: 2018 P.R. Latta Award presentation at 61st Annual Convention banquet

When: Thursday, Sept. 20th at 6:30 pm (reception), 7:00 pm (banquet)

Where: Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, 3415 Wake Forest Rd, Raleigh, NC 27609

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