Election day is approaching for nearly 1,500 workers at an electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky. Hourly workers at the sprawling BlueOval SK Battery Park will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers Union.

The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled the secret ballot election for Aug. 26-27.

The election comes amid bitter tensions between workers and the company over safety and health issues.

Nearly a century ago, Ford Motor Company workers in Michigan pushed for safer factories. Today, their counterparts say they’re engaged in the same high stakes fight in Kentucky.

“It’s our time to sit across the table from management as equals,” says one worker in a video produced by the United Auto Workers Union. “We want a legally binding contract that guarantees our wage, heal

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