Scott Slawson, General President
Scott Slawson has been a member of Local 506 for two decades. He has served as a shop steward, a divisional chief steward and executive board member, and as local president since 2014. During national negotiations with General Electric in 2015, he co-chaired the committee that coordinated bargaining between 13 different unions. After the Erie plant was sold to Wabtec in 2019 he led two strikes: a nine-day strike in 2019 immediately after Wabtec took over the plant and refused to maintain existing conditions, and a 70-day strike in 2023 during negotiations for a second contract. As Local 506 president, he has been instrumental in guiding UE's Green Locomotive Project.
Andrew Dinkelaker, Secretary-Treasurer
Andrew Dinkelaker joined UE in the 1990s as a member of Local 223, and became a field organizer in 1997. Prior to his 2011 election as a national officer, Dinkelaker was president of the UE Eastern Region and before that, District 6. As secretary-treasurer he’s worked hard to complete the progress of bringing the UE budget into balance so that the union has the financial stability to continue its great work long into the future.
Kimberly Lawson, Director of Organization
Kimberly Lawson began her career in the labor movement as a staff writer for the United Farm Workers. She joined the UE staff in 1989, and has led 17 successful organizing drives, including those that brought in UE's first nonprofit workers, university support staff, food co-op workers, and federal Service Contract Act workers. She has also helped bargain 17 first contracts, including UE’s first SCA contracts and three graduate worker locals’ first contracts. She is the first woman to serve as Director of Organization, and the second woman to serve UE as a national officer.