Future Of $3.5 Billion Marshall Battery Plant Uncertain After Ford Pauses Project Amid UAW Strike

MARSHALL - In February 2023, Ford announced an ambitious project: a $3.5 billion factory on a 950-acre site near Marshall to produce batteries for its expanding line of electric vehicles. Now, that project has been put on hold, threatening roughly 2,500 new jobs, during the United Auto Workers strike against Ford. Now, that project has