{"id":19581,"date":"2025-01-08T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19581"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:27:45","slug":"u-a-w-seeks-union-election-at-ford-battery-plant-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19581","title":{"rendered":"U.A.W. Seeks Union Election at Ford Battery Plant in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Automobile Workers union asked a federal labor regulator to conduct an election at a factory Ford jointly owns with a South Korean battery company.<\/p>\n

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The United Automobile Workers union is seeking approval from federal labor regulators for a union election among workers at a Ford Motor battery plant in Kentucky, providing an important test of organized labor\u2019s strength after the election of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

The union petitioned the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday to let workers at the new factory in Glendale, about 55 miles south of Louisville, vote on whether they want to join the U.A.W. The plant, which is expected to begin production this year, is a joint venture between Ford and SK On, a South Korean battery company.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the U.A.W. said a \u201csupermajority\u201d of workers at the plant had signed cards expressing their desire to join the union.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be able to come together with management and have a voice in how the business is run,\u201d said Bill Wilmoth, a production worker at the Glendale plant who helped lead the organizing drive. \u201cWe want an opportunity to negotiate a contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A vote to join the U.A.W. would increase the likelihood that workers who were hired at two other Ford battery plants would also become union members. Those plants \u2014 one in Kentucky and the other in Tennessee \u2014 are under construction and are also joint ventures between Ford and SK.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited about our future and strive to maintain our direct relationship with our employees,\u201d the joint venture, known as BlueOval SK, said in a statement. BlueOval SK has about 750 employees in Kentucky and 350 in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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The United Automobile Workers union asked a federal labor regulator to conduct an election at a factory Ford jointly owns with a South Korean battery company.The United Automobile Workers union is seeking approval from federal labor regulators for a union election among workers at a Ford Motor battery plant in Kentucky, providing an important test of organized labor\u2019s strength after the election of Donald J. Trump.The union petitioned the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday to let workers at the new factory in Glendale, about 55 miles south of Louisville, vote on whether they want to join the U.A.W. The plant, which is expected to begin production this year, is a joint venture between Ford and SK On, a South Korean battery company.In a statement, the U.A.W. said a \u201csupermajority\u201d of workers at the plant had signed cards expressing their desire to join the union.\u201cWe want to be able to come together with management and have a voice in how the business is run,\u201d said Bill Wilmoth, a production worker at the Glendale plant who helped lead the organizing drive. \u201cWe want an opportunity to negotiate a contract.\u201dA vote to join the U.A.W. would increase the likelihood that workers who were hired at two other Ford battery plants would also become union members. Those plants \u2014 one in Kentucky and the other in Tennessee \u2014 are under construction and are also joint ventures between Ford and SK.\u201cWe are excited about our future and strive to maintain our direct relationship with our employees,\u201d the joint venture, known as BlueOval SK, said in a statement. BlueOval SK has about 750 employees in Kentucky and 350 in Tennessee.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19583,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19584,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19581\/revisions\/19584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}