{"id":79920,"date":"2025-01-25T11:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=79920"},"modified":"2025-01-25T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:38:31","slug":"uaw-scores-supermajority-at-blueoval-sk-in-2025s-first-big-labor-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=79920","title":{"rendered":"UAW scores supermajority at BlueOval SK in 2025’s first big labor win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week\u2019s inauguration of President Trump stole the headlines, but it wasn\u2019t the only big election news \u2014 a supermajority of workers at BlueOval SK voted to file a petition last week with the National Labor Relations Board to unite with the UAW.<\/p>\n

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The supermajority vote by workers at BlueOval SK occurred after attending a\u00a0town hall-style meeting\u00a0in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with UAW members from Ultium Cells in Lordstown, Ohio<\/a> last month. The Lordstown Ultium plant makes battery cells for GM and Honda electric vehicles and, like the BlueOval SK (BOSK) project, is a joint venture between one of the Detroit 3 and a Korean battery brand (in the case of Ultium, GM and LG; in the case of BlueOval SK, Ford and SK On).<\/p>\n

The similarities were apparently enough to convince the majority of BOSK workers of the UAW team\u2019s credibility in the traditionally union-opposing south<\/a>. The move is expected to yield immediate improvements in working conditions at the Kentucky plant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re forming our union so we can have a say in our safety and our working conditions,\u201d explained Halee Hadfield, a quality operator at BOSK. \u201cThe chemicals we\u2019re working with can be extremely dangerous. If something goes wrong, a massive explosion can occur. With our union, we can speak up if we see there\u2019s a problem and make sure we\u2019re keeping ourselves and the whole community safe,\u201d<\/p>\n

Those safety concerns were echoed by other BlueOval SK employees who voted to join the UAW. \u201cI have worked both union and nonunion jobs and have seen the power of a union firsthand,\u201d said Andrew McLean, a logistics worker in formation at BOSK. \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t have a say at BOSK. With a union, we\u2019ll be on a level playing field with management. That\u2019s so important when you\u2019re getting a new plant off the ground. The union allows us to give honest feedback without fear of retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford paid its shareholders more than $3 billion in dividends, on a gross profit of over $24.7 billion for the twelve months ending September 30, 2024<\/a>. That $3 billion would be enough to pay each of Ford\u2019s 177,000 global employees a one-time bonus of $16,950. According to Ford\u2019s 2024 proxy statement, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, earned a total compensation of $26,470,033 in 2023 \u2014 a nearly $6 million raise from 2022.<\/p>\n

The growing unionization movement among nonunion battery workers across the country, and especially in the South, builds off the success of the UAW Stand Up Strike at the Big Three<\/a>, as well as the victory by Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, who became the first Southern autoworkers employed outside the Big Three to join the UAW last April.<\/p>\n

SOURCE | IMAGES<\/strong>: UAW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last week\u2019s inauguration of President Trump stole the headlines, but it wasn\u2019t the only big election news \u2014 a supermajority of workers at BlueOval SK voted to file a petition last week with the National Labor Relations Board to unite with the UAW. The supermajority vote by workers at BlueOval SK occurred after attending a\u00a0town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}