The Latest Breaking News from Ultium

Speakers at the 2024 convention bragged about the Democratic Party's willingness to give public money to private companies.

A battery startup in West Virginia and the mineworkers union may have a blueprint for those left behind in the energy transition.

General Motors Co. is still planning a fourth battery plant and even more beyond that despite the reported breakup with supplier and partner LG Energy Solution.

Ultium Cells LLC, the General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution battery cell joint venture, and the United Auto Workers will begin negotiating on their first contract for workers at Ultium's northeast Ohio plant in January, union spokesperson Sandra Engle said in a statement.

Ultium Cells will use the loan to finance construction of new battery cell plants in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan, which will support a total of 11,000 jobs.

The United Auto Workers has organized its first joint-venture battery plant, a facility in northeast Ohio owned by General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution, the union said early Friday.

General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution are investing $275 million at their Tennessee Ultium Cells LLC joint-venture battery plant to increase cell production there when it opens in late 2023, the company announced Friday.

An election to unionize the first General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution battery cell manufacturing plant is scheduled for Dec. 7 and Dec. 8, according to a National Labor Relations Board filing.

The United Auto Workers has filed to have a union election on behalf of about 900 workers at the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Warren, Ohio.