Brothers and Sisters,
To address the concerns of people who signed the forms to go to work at TBB Plant. It is stated in our contract book on page 255, third paragraph, LOU Employee Placement. “Employees who are hired to work in another DTNA/UAW represented facility will maintain all recall rights to their original facility.” This contract is the only legally binding document that both parties signed. The form you signed was not a mutually agreed-upon form by the union and the company. The Q&A paper that sent to the employees
huddle was not agreed upon either. You will not lose your recall rights to your original facility according to our contract.
If there are any questions, please feel free to call your union representative at 704-822-7489.
It is very important for each member to regularly keep in touch with your local UAW office.
To update any address or phone number changes simply fill in the form information by locating the tab in the upper right corner of this page.
Attend monthly membership meetings the second Saturday of each month. Unless other wise posted on this site.
COBRA Healthcare Packages for Laid Off Employees
During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history.Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals. He went on to lead similar campaigns against poverty and international conflict, always maintaining fidelity to his principles that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family.
Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Nobel Peace Prize lecture and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are among the most revered orations and writings in the English language. His accomplishments are now taught to American children of all races, and his teachings are studied by scholars and students worldwide. He is the only non-president to have a national holiday dedicated in his honor and is the only non-president memorialized on the Great Mall in the nation’s capital. He is memorialized in hundreds of statues, parks, streets, squares, churches and other public facilities around the world as a leader whose teachings are increasingly-relevant to the progress of humankind.
Newly elected Local 5285 officers being sworn in by President/Shopchair Ricky McDowell at the June 14th Membership Meeting
December 18, 2025
UAW NEWS
CELEBRATE DR. MARTINLUTHER KING JR. DAY
JANUARY 19, 2026
UAW International Website News
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Next Membership Meeting
January 10, 2026
10:00 am
Downtown Union Hall
113 E. Charlotte Avenue
Mount Holly, North Carolina 28120
Building Our Unions and Protecting Our Communities
Daimler Healthcare was cut off on August 1st for laid of employees, to start your eight months of reduced cost COBRA Healthcare you must apply within 60 days of being laid off.
The COBRA packages were mailed 8-1-2025, if you have not received a package call Zenith at 888-286-3169 and request a COBRA package.
When you get the COBRA package, please fill out the forms and send them back, I would include two months of my cost share payment. When they load you into the system and receive the payment, the healthcare will be turned on. This usually takes seven to ten days from receiving the payment. Your coverage will backdate to August 1st ,2025. If you have any bills prior to your coverage starting, call the provider to have them re-filed. Have the pharmacy re-file the drug receipts if you have these. You have 60 days from the layoff to get this done to not have a break in coverage, continue to use the existing cards.
Thanks, Keith Harbin,
UAW Local 5285 Benefits Rep
President Ricky McDowell delivered school supplies to Kiser Elementary on the the behalf of UAW 5285 membership.
MLK JR. BREAKFAST CELEBRATION
SATURDAY JANUARY 17, 2026
MLK JR. CENTER
313 Greenhaven Dr. NW Lenoir, NC
9:00 am
(Doors open at 8:30 am)
Admissions: Ticket only
(Limited Tickets Sold at the Door)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
RICKY MCDOWELL
PRESIDENT OF UAW LOCAL 5285
Mount Holly, NC