�Officially Official: GM NOT Using UAW Help In Volt Battery Plant TheGMSource - About a month ago we wrote about a tip that ran across our desk that suggested GM was opening its new Brownstown Township Volt battery plant without the help of the UAW. Today, that rumor became truth as the Detroit Free Press reported that GM is indeed going to open the plant without the help of the UAW, and the UAW may never be in the plant at all.