Former GM Lordstown Assembly plant employees will have six months, starting today, to come home.

While the information does not give a number of employees Ultium is looking to add, however, former employees must apply for any opening the EV battery plant has open, according to the transfer agreement.

The first to apply could be selected for transfer by as soon as April 15.

 The details of the Lordstown Transfer  Agreement have been released, and show:

  • Positions are offered as GM Leased Employees to Ultium Cells, since Ultium Cell is an joint between LG Energy Solution and General Motors.
  • GM Leased Employees will work for Ultium Cells leadership; independent from General Motors.

New job openings will be posted for eligible former Lordstown employees who  can "express interest in job openings" at the EV battery plant, for any employee who was stilling working at the Lordstown Assembly Complex on Novermber 26, 2018 and "who remain active with the company."

Former GM Lordstown employees that are granted positions in Ultium Cells-Ohio will be placed in openings, according to the report.

Those wishing to apply will be applying for positions in the following areas:

  • Electrode
  • Cell
  • Formation
  • Quality
  • Material
  • Maintenance

More than 60 percent of Ultium employees work in a clean/dry room for cell process and must wear special protective equipment including clean room suit, special work shoes, face mask/respirator, safety glasses and hat.

Eligible employees will have 6 months to submit an application to transfer, which begins today through the end of the day on September 13. Anyone of those eligible who fail to submit application by the deadline are ineligible to transfer to the Ultium Cells facility under the term provisions. However, their application will remain on file at Ultium for future opening for the life of the 2023 UAW-GM National Agreement.

Those who apply will be determined by the 15th of the month, with the first transfer eligibility batch coming on April 15.

Employees transferring backing will also be eligible to receive a Relocation Allowance as part of the National Agreement.

However, if any employee wants to transfer to another UAW-GM facility, funding for relocation will not be provided unless the employee is on indefinite layoff from Ultium Cell.

GM Lordstown closed March 6, 2019, and left more than 1,600 employees to transfer or select other options.

According to Ultium Cell media spokeperson Katie Burdette, there are 2,000 employees currently working at the facility.

The statement stated that selected transfer employees will subject to the terms of the Local UAW-GM agreement at Ultium Cells, which is still being worked out.