Ron Gettelfinger (b. August 1 1944) is the current president of the trade union United Auto Workers. He has held the position since 2002.

He started his union involvement in 1964 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Louisville Assembly plant run by Ford Motor Company. He was elected president of local union 862 in 1984. In 1987, he became a member of the Ford-UAW bargaining committee. Afterwards, he held other positions director of UAW Region 3 and the UAW chaplaincy program. He is a 1976 graduate of Indiana University Southeast.