GM uses electric cars to union bust.
One year after closing its Lordstown, OH manufacturing plant, GM announced that it was opening a new electric battery plant next door from the old plant.
But instead of owning the plant themselves, GM teamed up with LG to form another company, called Ultium Cells. Because battery workers were employed by Ultium, rather than GM, they didn’t have to honor the union agreement with GM, and UAW had to start organizing from scratch.