The Associated Pressto pay full union wages at electric vehicle battery factories, thrusting what had been a festering conflict into the spotlight.
GM said wages at the battery plants would be determined by Ultium Cells LLC, the joint venture with LG Energy that’s running the factories. Kristin Dziczek, senior vice president at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank, said workers who make internal combustion engines and transmissions and associated parts are at"the epicenter of this industrial transformation from internal combustion engines to batteries.”
“The union is going to lose a huge number of jobs from engine and transmission plants that are replaced by battery plants,” he said. “There are also going to be job reductions in the assembly plants due to simplified production of EVs with probably somewhere around 25-30% fewer people required to build same number of vehicles.”
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)