After the news broke late last week that the joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution - Lordstown's Ultium Cells - would be rolled into the master agreement, the local workforce received some of the details during UAW President Shawn Fain's update to its membership on Saturday.

A source familiar with the information on the next step told 21 News that Ultium workers members of UAW 1112, who voted last December for United Auto Worker representation, will be voting on November 13 and 14 to go under the GM Master agreement.

If approved by the Ultium workers, workers will be included in the salary rate increase, along with all master agreement benefits. Some of the former GM Lordstown employees, those who worked at the plant on Nov. 26, 2018, will be given six months' first-chance opportunity to transfer home, retaining their salary, tenure, and benefits.

GM and the UAW reached a tentative agreement for a four-and-a-half-year contract on October 30.

The tentative agreement was approved by the council board on Friday in Detroit and is expected to be voted on next week by the approximately 48,000 employees.

The agreement will give Ultium workers the opportunity to receive master agreement benefits and the right to transfer between the electric vehicle plants and the other automaker's traditional facilities. Any future Ultium Cells battery plants will not automatically be union sites but would have to do the same steps as Lordstiwn Ultium plant, requiring a card check to be recognized or go through the National Labor Relations Board vote to be recognized by the UAW, then certified.

The UAW bargaining will continue to negotiate at the Lordstown facility for the local language that pertains to the battery plant operation.