UAW Region 9
Covers western and central New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, excluding the counties of Franklin, Cumberland, Adams, York.
Director: Joseph Ashton
Headquarters:
35 George Karl Blvd., Suite 100
Amherst, N.Y. 14221
TEL: (716) 632-1540
FAX: (716) 632-1797
Pennsylvania CAP (Community Action Program) Dept.
1375 Virginia Dr., Suite 201
Fort Washington, Pa.19034
TEL: (215) 591-0830
FAX: (215) 591-0839
Sub Regional Offices:
56 Vineyard Road
Edison, N.J. 08611
TEL: (732) 248-6850
FAX: (732) 248-8670
6101 East Molloy Road
East Syracuse, N.Y. 13057
TEL: (315) 437-1601
FAX: (315) 437-1308
1375 Virginia Dr., Suite 201
Fort Washington, Pa. 19034
TEL: (215) 591-0830
FAX: (215) 591-0837
602 Evans City Road, Suite 200
Butler, Pa. 16001
TEL: (724) 482-2124
FAX: (724) 482-2997
Region 9 Local Unions on the Web
Local 624
Represents workers at Magna's New Process Gear, a division of Magna Powertrain, and other employers in East Syracuse, N.Y.
Local
686
Located in Lockport, N.Y., Local 686 represents over 4,700 members who make radiators,
oil coolers, condensers, evaporators and HVAC units at Delphi Harrison Thermal
Systems. Other members of this amalgamated local also make metal products for
Metal Cladding, Inc. and rubber and plastic products for Avon Automotive. The
local also represents cafeteria workers at the Delphi facility, hospital workers
at Reflections In-Patient Unit in Lockport, and workers at Perry's Ice Cream Company.
There are approximately 4,800 retirees in Local 686 as well.
Local
774
Local 774 members
are employed by the Tonawanda Engine Plant, GM Powertrain — a division of General
Motors. This is the largest engine manufacturing complex in the world.
Local
802
Founded in 1963,
this local represents skilled machinists, assemblers, electricians, and maintenance
mechanics making Monarch Machining Centers in Cortland County, New York.
Local 897
Local 897 represents about 1,100 workers at the Ford Motor Co.’s Buffalo (N.Y.) Stamping Plant. The workers make metal stampings and welded sub-assemblies for Ford’s car and truck assembly plants in North America, Great Britain and Mexico.
Local 1069
The 1,150 members of Local 1069 build the V-22 Osprey troop transport
helicopter and the Chinook medium-lift helicopter at the Boeing facility
in Philadelphia. Chartered in 1956, the local has a retiree membership
of 1,600.
Local 1097
The members of Local 1097 make fuel systems and emissions controls systems, primarily for General Motors, at the Delphi Energy and Electronics plant in Rochester, N.Y.
Local 2177
Local 2177's 280 active members work at the General Motors Service Parts
Operations plant in Langhorne, Pa., bringing quality GM parts to area
dealers. The local also has 280 retired members.
Local
2300
This local represents workers
at Cornell University and several other organizations in Ithaca, N.Y. The
site gives plenty of basic information on what a union is and how it works.
Joseph Ashton was elected director of UAW Region 9 on June 14, 2006, at the union’s 34th Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas.
Region 9 covers western and central New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, excluding the counties of Franklin, Cumberland, Adams and York.
Ashton served as assistant director of Region 9 from January 2003 until his election as director. As assistant director, Ashton played a key role in contract negotiations between the UAW and such companies as SPD Technologies Magna (formerly New Venture Gear), Dana and Boeing, and in helping 2,400 workers at A. K. Steel in Butler, Pa., win UAW representation in December 2003.
Ashton was appointed to the staff of the UAW in 1986 with responsibility for contract negotiations, grievances, arbitrations and otherwise servicing UAW local unions at numerous employers throughout the region. In 1996, he was appointed area director for Region 9 Pennsylvania.
Ashton joined UAW Local 1612 in 1969 while working at ITE Circuit in Philadelphia. He quickly became active in his local union and over the years served as sergeant-at-arms, vice president and bargaining committee chairman.
In 1977, Local 1612 members elected Ashton president, making the 28-year-old union activist the youngest president in the local’s history. Ashton served as president of Local 1612 until his appointment to the UAW staff. He also represented Local 1612 as a delegate to three UAW Constitutional Conventions.
In 1982, Ashton was elected president of the UAW’s Pennsylvania State Community Action Program (CAP), the union’s political action arm, a position he held until joining the UAW staff.
Active in labor and civic affairs, Ashton is executive vice president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Executive Council and a director of the Western New York Federal Reserve Bank. He is a member of the Multiple Sclerosis Association, the Statewide Labor Advisory Committee for Pennsylvania, the Northeast-Midwest Alliance for Labor, the Industrial Relations Research Association of Pennsylvania and the New Jersey AFL-CIO.
Ashton was born in Philadelphia on June 3, 1948. He graduated from Northeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia and attended Pennsylvania State University.
Joe and his wife, Denise, have four sons – Joseph, Daniel, Thomas and Patrick – and four grandchildren. Continuing the Ashton family’s strong union tradition, Thomas is business agent of UAW Local 1612, and Daniel is an attorney specializing in labor law at a Philadelphia law firm.