A signed agreement shows that Volkswagen officials reneged on a pledge to recognize the United Auto Workers without another vote at the German automaker’s lone U.S. plant in Tennessee, a top union official said Tuesday.Gary Casteel, the UAW’s secretary-treasurer, released the 2014 document stating that Volkswagen would recognize the UAW as the representative of its members in exchange for the union dropping a challenge to the outcome of a union election at the plant in Chattanooga.
“Volkswagen never fulfilled its commitments to recognize the union as a representative of its members,” Castell said in a conference call. “The unfulfilled commitment is at the heart of the ongoing disagreement between the company and the union.”
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