Last week's inauguration of President Trump stole the headlines, but it was not the only big news of the election – the Supermajelity of workers in Sk blue voted to apply to the UAW last week with the UAW.
A high-profile vote of workers at BlueLoval Sky after attending a town hall-style meeting in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with UAW members from Lordstown, Ohio cells last month. The Lordstown Ultium plant makes battery cells for GM and HODA electric vehicles, and, like the BookOVAL SK In the case of the BookOVAL SK, Ford and Sk).
The similarity was apparently enough to convince most Bosk workers of the UAW's loyalty to the union in opposition to the South. The move is expected to bring immediate improvements to working conditions at the Kentucky plant.
“We are forming our union to have a say in our safety and working conditions,” explained Halee Hadfield, quality operator at Bosk. “The chemicals we work with can be very dangerous. If something goes wrong, a big explosion is possible. Through our Union, we can speak up if we see a problem and make sure we protect ourselves and the whole community is safe,”
Those safety concerns were echoed by other SK workers who voted to join the UAW. “I've worked for all union and nonunion jobs and I've seen the power of organization firsthand,” said Andrew Mclean, Logistics Executive at Bosk. “Right now, we have no say at Bosk. With Union, we will be on a level playing field with management. It's very important when you get a new plant on the ground. Union allows us to give honest feedback without fear of retaliation.”
Ford paid its shareholders more than $ 3 billion in dividends, a huge profit of $ 24.7 billion in the twelve months ending September 30,000 employees worldwide of the bonus of Ford's 17,950 . According to Ford's 2024 Proxy Statement, Jim Farley, CEO of Ford Motor Company, received total compensation of $26,470,033 in 2023 – an increase of nearly $6 million from 2022.
The explosion of growing solidarity among non-union battery workers across the country, and especially in the south, created the success of the UAW STET MOST strike of three, and the victory of the Southern auto workers who were hired out of three of the three to join the previous UAW.
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