Workers at GM joint venture battery plant vote to join UAW

Dec 10th 2022 at 11:30AMbattery factory in Ohio have voted to join the United Auto Workers union.

GM has pledged to sell only electric passenger vehicles by 2030, and the Ohio plant is the first to begin making battery cells that will go into packs that make electric vehicles go. The joint venture, called Ultium Cells LLC, said in a statement that it respects the workers' decision. “We look forward to a positive working relationship with the UAW,” the company said.

Curry, who is in a runoff election to lead the UAW next year, said in a July interview that representation at the battery plants is critical, given that major automakers are staking their futures on widespread use of electric vehicles. The union will want automakers to pay top assembly plant wages of around $32 per hour at the battery plants, the wage they now pay at engine and transmission factories. But automakers will want to pay less to keep costs competitive with companies that have battery plants in the South and West that are likely to be nonunion. GM currently pays about $22 per hour at its unionized parts-making plants.

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