GLENDALE – (TNS) Hourly workers making electric vehicle batteries at Kentucky’s BlueOval SK this week will also decide whether to unionize.

Employees will cast secret ballots Aug. 26 and 27 to join United Auto Workers, one of the largest labor unions in the country, following approval for the vote from the National Labor Relations Board July 31. According to the labor board’s notice of election, ballots will be counted immediately after voting ends Wednesday at 8 p.m.

The worker-led ask for the vote in January was the first move of the year for formal organizing among Southern autoworkers. Since then, EV battery facilities have begun production and some automakers are looking at American factories with interest as the industry takes a hit from President Donald Trump’s administration’s a

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