Just this month, employees at a battery plant in Ohio voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union – an apparent first for an electric vehicle or battery cell plant not owned entirely by the Big Three legacy automakers. The UAW would very much like Rivian to be next.
All autoworkers have a stake in the defense of workers at Stellantis Belvidere Assembly, who have been targeted for indefinite layoff in the latest corporate restructuring.
1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.