WARREN — If the 1,000 people expected to be employed at the new electric battery plant General Motors and LG Chem are pursuing in the Mahoning Valley will be unionized, labor organizers will have to push for it, and the workers will have to welcome it with a vote.
Because GM and the United Auto Workers did not include the then-potential plant in contract negotiations earlier this year, there is no guarantee the workforce will be organized under the United Auto Workers or any other union, said Tim O’Hara, president of what remains of the UAW 1112 in Lordstown . And it will be up to the companies to determine how much access to the plant organized labor groups will have, he said.