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UAW says Volkswagen reneged on deal to recognize union

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FILE - In this July 12, 2013, file photo, employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., work on the assembly of a Passat sedans. The United Auto Workers said on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, that Volkswagen reneged on an earlier agreement to recognize the union in exchange for the UAW dropping a legal challenge to the outcome of a union vote at the plant in 2014. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

NASHVILLE – The United Auto Workers says Volkswagen officials have reneged on a pledge to recognize the union at the German automaker’s lone U.S. plant in Tennessee.

Gary Casteel, the UAW’s secretary-treasurer, released a 2014 document Tuesday 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.

The union said the written agreement stemmed from negotiations at a meeting led by Volkswagen’s then-chief financial officer, Hans Dieter Poetsch, who has since been named chairman amid the company’s diesel emissions cheating scandal.

Volkswagen is mounting a legal challenge to a union election at the plant last year in which about 160 skilled trades workers voted to be represented the UAW.

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