The Kentucky autoworkers, who want to join the United Auto Workers, filed for a union election Tuesday, a key development in the union’s campaign to organize Southern auto-factories and EV battery facilities.

The United Auto Workers union is petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election at a Kentucky battery plant run by a Ford Motor joint venture, the union said in a release Wednesday.

The United Automobile Workers union asked a federal labor regulator to conduct an election at a factory Ford jointly owns with a South Korean battery company.

Harrison Ford is among the residents of Los Angeles concerned for their home as the Palisades Fire continues to rage. The “Shrinking” actor, 82, was spotted talking with police officers on Tuesday near his $12.6 million home in Brentwood, an upmarket neighborhood of Los Angeles currently threatened by the Palisades blaze.

An area of Brentwood was evacuated due to the ongoing Palisades Fire, which has destroyed numerous celebrity homes.

Harrison Ford was seen speaking with Los Angeles Police Department officers who then offered to escort him in one of their vehicles to his $20 million home in the city's Brentwood neighborhood

Global auto suppliers are working out how much of their production can be moved to the United States, or closer to it, as a defense against tariffs promised by President-elect Donald Trump, according to industry executives at CES in Las Vegas.

After a meeting with premiers, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made comments about U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's threats to impose significant tariffs on Canadian products. Ford says premiers are concerned after Trump's recent ramp-up in rhetoric,