Ron Hoover
Executive Vice President (R/PIC)
Ron Hoover joined the United Rubber Workers in 1964 when he went to work at Goodyear's Topeka Kansas plant. He was a union activist at Local 307, serving as division chairman and two-term president before his appointment to the URW staff in 1989.
He served as coordinator of the Goodyear/Kelly-Springfield Dunlop bargaining committee since 1993.
He recently successfully concluded the contract re-opener negotiations with Continental General Tire, and oversees the USW's Journeyman Card Program.
Ron was elected Executive Vice President by delegates to the union's Rubber/Plastics Industry Conference on October 5, 2005. He was first appointed to that office on September 1, 2005, after serving as assistant to the executive vice president since 1998. He also serves on the Institute for Career Development advisory committee.
