The United Auto Workers organized its first joint-venture battery plant in a facility in northeast Ohio owned by General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution, it said early Friday.
The increased investment in the Ultium Cells plant in Spring Hill will add 400 jobs and increase annual production capacity at the battery plant from 35 to 50 gigawatt-hours.
The United Auto Workers on Monday said it was seeking an election to represent workers at a General Motors/LG Energy battery cell manufacturing joint venture in Ohio after the companies refused to