In what is being termed as an early test of the promise made by Biden about a transition to the EV and its resolve about creating high-paying jobs. The employees at a battery plant in the Ohio region have voted towards joining the union of United Automobile Workers.
There seems to be a first formal union being created at a major of the automakers in the city known as Big Three. The plant is owned by LG energy solutions and General Motors. The result of the voting was 710 to 15.
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As per the president of the UAW, Ray Curry, With the transition of the industry into the electric vehicles, the new workers are entering into the auto sectors such as Ultium which are now thinking about their value and their worth. This is a vote which shows that they want to be a part of the team which maintains high wages and standards which the members of the UAW have built in the industry of automation.
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While the existing plants which are owned by three US automakers are maintaining a presence of a union. They have been shifting production to the electric vehicles and the union needs to start from the very beginning like the one in Ohio through which Ford is going to build the factories. The other companies such as Lucid, Rivian and Tesla aren’t Unionized.
The union of autoworkers has been worried for long about the transition to the electric vehicles first through the research paper that the EV requires close to 30% less of workforce to produce when compared to the ICE. This has also pointed out that the US is falling far behind than EU and Asia in the supply chains which are helping the other countries maintain its workforce continuously. Biden must gear up for this test.