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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. More than 1,000 workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Kentucky voted to join the UAW, according to election results released Wednesday night.

Ford Motor Company plans to invest nearly $2 billion in the Louisville Assembly Plant to expand and build a new midsize electric truck. Its plans will require an expansion and retooling of the entire factory, but will mean fewer jobs.

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The new electric vehicle factory is set to open in Stanton in early 2026.

Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers said Wednesday they had reached a tentative local agreement at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. The deal comes days before union-represented workers could’ve gone on strike at the plant.

Ford Motor Company is postponing the start of production at the second of two plants at the upcoming BlueOval SK Battery Park. The site will build batteries for Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles in Hardin County.

Hourly workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP) in Louisville are now on the picket lines, joining a United Auto Workers strike that began almost a month ago. The president of the city’s UAW chapter says workers at the company’s Louisville Assembly Plant could be off the job soon.

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Ford says its new assembly plant being built in western Tennessee will be able to build up to a half million electric pickup trucks per year at full production.

Kentucky’s best-known transportation advocacy organization says Ford’s almost $6 billion investment in battery technology signals an urgency in finding new ways to support road and bridge construction and maintenance.