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UAW Local 3520 Opens New Local Union Hall/Facility

UAW Local 3520 at the Freightliner Truck Plant in Cleveland North Carolina opened their new local union hall/facility to the membership with an open house and membership appreciation day on July 12th. The new local is located seven miles from the truck manufacturing plant on highway 70 near the town of Statesville North Carolina. Fun was had for all that came out to participate with bouncy houses and coloring contest for the kids to guitar hero, karaoke, and temporary tattoos for everyone. Grilled hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken were enjoyed by everyone with several door prizes donated by different committees.

Much thanks goes out to the Community Services Committee and the Veterans Committee for stepping up to help put this together and especially Sally Menius and Sandy Scott of the CSC for all the time and energy they put into making this such a great success.

We are very proud of our new facility. We as a membership have been searching for our own local hall for about two and a half years. With the high cost of construction and land in our area we knew we would have to look for something different. That’s when this facility came available; it is the former Wayside Elementary School. We have four buildings with one being a free standing gymnasium complete with basketball court and stage for larger meetings. The main building is where the local offices are located and a 125 seat seminar room and two rooms dedicated to education training for our members. The cafeteria, which stands by itself as well, came complete with all the equipment; stove, large commercial refrigerator and large freezer, ovens and warming units. The last building is six classrooms which will be utilized by the standing committee’s to have their own space to have meetings and use as they need for their various activities. We also have our own baseball field in the lower corner of our 10+ acres of land.

We could not be more proud and happy with our facility and we look forward to the possibility of holding some Regional events here in the future.

In Solidarity,
Kevin D Barnett
UAW L.U.D.L