JUSTICE AT ULTIUM

TENTATIVE AGREEMENT AT ULTIUM!

Our UAW bargaining team has reached a tentative agreement with Ultium Cells on our local contract.

Informational meetings about the contract and the ratification vote will be held at the following times and location:

Monday March 3rd 6:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. in the Gym
Tuesday March 4th 6:00 a.m.- 8:30 p.m. in Banquet Hall
Wednesday March 5th 6:00 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. in Banquet Hall

UAW Local 1853 Hall
125 Stephen P. Yokich Parkway
Spring Hill, TN 37174

The members are the ultimate authority in our union and the contract is final only after UAW members at Ultium vote to ratify the tentative agreement.

Ultium Spring Hill

Ultium Lordstown

CASE STUDY: ULTIUM CELLS LORDSTOWN

This case study of Ultium Cells Lordstown shows there is a real danger that hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars will subsidize an EV industry that underpays and endangers workers.

Ultium is a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution. Its Lordstown, Ohio, plant makes the battery cells that power GM’s growing EV fleet. Ultium’s Lordstown plant could qualify for tax credits worth more than $1 billion a year.

Despite this potentially massive subsidy, Ultium offered workers a starting wage of just $16.50 an hour when it opened in the summer of 2022. Even after seven years, workers would make just $20 an hour. Troublingly, Ultium workers have also reported serious health and safety problems at the plant.

Facing hazardous conditions and low pay, the Lordstown workers organized with the UAW and voted 710 to 16 to join the union. Ultium’s Lordstown workers are showing there’s a better way forward for EV manufacturing in America. A way that maintains the same strong pay and safety standards that UAW members have won at Big Three plants across the country.