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The United Auto Workers union has preliminarily won a razor-thin election at a fourth electric vehicle battery plant in the U.S. The pro-union vote led by 11 votes, but 41 ballots are being contested.

Nearly 1,500 workers at a massive electric vehicle battery plant in Hardin County have an important election coming up. Hourly workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park will vote on whether they should join the United Auto Workers Union. The decision comes amid bitter tensions between workers and the company over safety and health issues.

Four years after Gov. Andy Beshear announced the largest economic development project in Kentucky history, the first electric vehicle battery rolled off the assembly line Tuesday morning at the BlueOval SK campus in Hardin County.

Workers at a sprawling electric vehicle battery campus in Glendale, Kentucky will vote this month on whether to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled Aug. 26-27 for an election that will determine whether hourly employees at the BlueOval SK plant will join the United Auto Workers Union.

Teams of racers drove thousands of miles in a three-day grand prix held this weekend at the National Corvette Museum’s Motorsports Park in Bowling Green.And they did it all without a drop of gas.

An electric vehicle battery supplier has paused construction on a factory in western Kentucky.

A manufacturer of electric vehicle battery materials is scaling back plans for its facility under construction in Christian County. Ascend Elements says it has come to a mutual agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to cancel a $164 million federal grant for its mega factory in Hopkinsville.

The first major union election in the South this year is headed to Glendale, Kentucky, a small farming community south of Louisville.

A supermajority of workers at an electric vehicle battery campus in Hardin County has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, asking for a union election. Employees of BlueOval SK have formally requested to vote on joining the United Auto Workers.

BlueOval SK has announced wage increases starting Jan. 1 for workers at the electric vehicle battery campus in Hardin County. The raises come as some workers want to join the United Auto Workers Union.