United Auto Workers

FILE - Construction continues on the first of two manufacturing plants as part of the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Ky., Dec. 5, 2022. (Gina Clear/The News-Enterprise via AP, File)

Workers at Kentucky electric vehicle battery production complex start drive to unionize

Workers hired for an electric vehicle battery production complex in Kentucky have launched a campaign to join the United Auto Workers. The union is trying to expand its foothold in the South and among battery factories.

FILE - Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, with Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, left, and UAW President Shawn Fain, speaks at a campaign rally at UAW Local 900, Aug. 8, 2024, in Wayne, Mich. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Unions face a moment of truth in Michigan in this year’s presidential race

FILE - United Auto Workers members strike outside of Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky. on Oct. 12, 2023. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP, File)

Port strikes extend a new era of American labor activism

FILE - An entrance to the Stellantis factory in Belvidere. Ill., is shown on July 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

UAW fight with Stellantis escalates as union files unfair labor charges over factory commitments

In this image from video, United Auto Workers members rally outside Stellantis' Sterling Heights Assembly Plant Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, in Sterling Heights, Mich. (AP Photo/Tom Krisher)

UAW’s rift with Stellantis raises fear that some US auto jobs could vanish

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Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers, speaks during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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FILE - President Donald Trump, right, talks with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the White House in Washington, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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FILE - United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain speaks to Volkswagen auto workers, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn., after workers at a VW factory voted to join the UAW. Fain is under investigation by a court-appointed watchdog who has been working to stamp out corruption at the union in the wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

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UAW President Shawn Fain, center, speaks with Mercedes workers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 17, 2024 after workers at two Alabama Mercedes-Benz factories voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

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David Johnston, right, a worker at Mercedes, thanks UAW President Shawn Fain following a press conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 17, 2024, after workers at two Alabama Mercedes-Benz factories voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

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United Auto Workers union supporters attended a May 4, 2024 rally in Birmingham, Ala.. A month after workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee overwhelmingly voted to unionize, the United Auto Workers is aiming for a key victory at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama. More than 5,000 workers at the facility in Vance and nearby battery plant will vote next week on whether to join the UAW. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

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Acting United States Secretary of Labor Julie Su poses for a photo, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Atlanta. Su says workers at southern auto plants should be free to unionize without employer or political interference, even as some southern states pass new laws meant to inhibit organized labor. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employee Stephanie Romack celebrates after employees voted to join the UAW union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employee Vicky Holloway celebrates as she watches the results of a UAW union vote, late Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tennessee Volkswagen employees overwhelmingly vote to join United Auto Workers union

FILE - A "We stand with the UAW" sign appears outside of the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Dec. 18, 2023. Workers at at the Tennessee factory are scheduled to finish voting Friday, April 19, 2024, on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. (Olivia Ross/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)

Southern governors tell autoworkers that voting for a union will put their jobs in jeopardy

FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, employees do assembly and quality control work on automobiles at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala. A majority of workers at the plant near Tuscaloosa, are calling for a vote to join the United Auto Workers union. According to the UAW, Friday, April 5, 2024, the Mercedes workers have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for the vote. (Gary Cosby Jr./The Tuscaloosa News via AP, File)

Mercedes workers at an Alabama plant call for union representation vote

A "We stand with the UAW" sign is placed outside of the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Dec. 18, 2023. Volkswagen’s factory in Chattanooga is likely to be the first test of the United Auto Workers’ effort to organize nonunion automobile plants across the nation. The union said workers at the factory filed paperwork Monday, March 18, 2024 with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a union representation election. (Olivia Ross/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, file)

Workers at Tennessee Volkswagen factory ask for vote on representation by United Auto Workers union

Ford and UAW reach local contract agreement at Kentucky Truck plant, averting threat of a strike

FILE - Ford Motor Co., President and CEO Jim Farley announces the automaker's new BlueOval Battery Park, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, in Romulus, Mich. Ford's top executive says that last fall’s contentious United Auto Workers’ strike changed the company's relationship with the union to the point where it will “think carefully” about where it builds future vehicles. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Ford CEO says company will rethink where it builds vehicles after last year’s autoworkers strike

File - United Auto Workers members walk the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Sept. 26, 2023. Ford Motor Co. swung to a net loss in the fourth quarter due to a large accounting charge on pension plans and the effects of a six-week strike at multiple factories by the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Ford)

Ford posts $523 million 4Q net loss on accounting charge for pensions but beats analyst estimates

President Joe Biden speaks during a United Auto Workers' political convention, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘Honored to have your back, and you have mine': Biden endorsed by United Auto Workers in election

FILE - A man walks in the Tesla plant parking lot, May 11, 2020, in Fremont, Calif. Factory workers at Tesla have been told to expect pay raises in 2024, a move that comes as the United Auto Workers union tries to organize the electric vehicle maker's U.S. plants. The UAW said Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, that Tesla workers have told the union about company statements on the raises, which did not give details about the size of the increases. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Tesla is raising factory worker pay as auto union tries to organize its electric vehicle plants

A gambler smokes while playing a slot machine at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City N.J. on Nov. 29, 2023. On Tuesday, Dec. 12, casino workers pushing for a smoking ban at the city's nine casinos publicized a letter from Shawn Fain, international president of the United Auto Workers union, calling on New Jersey lawmakers to ban smoking in the casinos. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2017, file photo, workers produce vehicles at Volkswagen's U.S. plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. More than 1,000 workers at the Tennessee factory have signed cards authorizing a vote to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. It's the first plant in the nation to reach that milestone in the UAW’s quest to organize more than a dozen nonunion factories. The union says in a statement Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 that the workers signed on in less than a week. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

UAW says over 1,000 workers at VW plant in Tennessee have signed cards seeking union representation

FILE - United Auto Workers members walk the picket line during a strike at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, in Sterling Heights, Mich., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. A six-week United Auto Workers strike at Ford cut sales by about 100,000 vehicles and cost the company $1.7 billion in lost profits this year, Ford said Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Autoworkers strike cut Ford sales by 100,000 vehicles and cost company $1.7 billion in profits

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain speaks to a reporter from The Associated Press during an interview at the union's headquarters Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers

File - UAW local 862 members strike outside of Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky. on Oct. 12, 2023. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP, File)

Ford and Stellantis workers join those at GM in approving contract settlement that ended UAW strikes

Hyundai joins Honda and Toyota in raising wages after auto union wins gains in deals with Detroit 3

President Joe Biden puts on a UAW Local 1268 shirt before speaking to United Auto Workers at the Community Building Complex of Boone County, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Ill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says workers need ‘a fair shot’ as he celebrates the labor deal saving an Illinois auto plant

File - United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, left, listens as President Joe Biden speaks to striking UAW members outside a General Motors facility on Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich. Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit’s automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of Fain, its pugnacious leader. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden will meet with United Auto Workers president in Illinois on Thursday

FILE - President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line, Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

During strike talks, Biden worked to build ties to the UAW’s leader. They have yet to fully pay off