ELIZABETHTOWN – (TNS) One of the country’s largest labor unions is claiming a victory in Kentucky’s growing electric vehicle battery industry.

The United Autoworkers will represent workers at BlueOval SK, the group announced minutes before midnight Wednesday, following a two-day, secret ballot election for a union at the sprawling, not-yet-completed campus near Elizabethtown, where about 1,450 people are employed making electric vehicle batteries for Ford Motor Co.

There were 1,249 eligible voters, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Of the 1,082 ballots counted, 526 were yes votes and 515 were no votes. A single ballot was void, and 167 workers who were eligible did not vote.

Some 41 votes are being challenged, meaning the labor board hasn’t decided those employees’ eligi

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