Workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery factory in Ohio have voted to join the United Auto Workers union.
About 900 workers at the new plant near Warren, Ohio, are the first to decide on union representation at a battery plant. The union says in a statement Dec. 9 that workers voted 710-16 for the UAW, a decision that is crucial to the future of the 372,000-member union.
As batteries replace gas-powered engines, employees at GM engine and transmission factories will need places to work as their products are gradually phased out over the next decade or so.
