Buoyed by notable Southern victories in 2024, the United Auto Workers Union is on a quest to organize the electric vehicle and battery sector. UAW hopes its next prize is a sprawling campus in rural Kentucky. Poole professor and Louisville native Steve Allen says union elections often come when there’s great dissatisfaction at companies.
“These union elections, while we can talk about global economic forces and what not, it’s often, ‘Did someone do something that really upset the workers at that plant? Did management make a series of mistakes in running the plant?’ That could tip the scales,” Allen said.
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