UAW leaders pick Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry to run union

United Auto Workers Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry has been elected president of the union

DETROIT -- United Auto Workers Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry has been elected president of the union. Curry, 55, was picked by the union's International Executive Board on Monday. He will replace Rory Gamble, who retires on Wednesday. Gamble led the 397,000-member union through a bribery and embezzlement scandal and the coronavirus pandemic, in which the union agreed to keep auto factories running with numerous safety precautions. He was the union's first Black president, and Curry will be the second. Curry will be replaced as secretary-treasurer by Frank Stuglin, 61, who now is director of a union region covering the Detroit area.