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Following years of hostility between the UAW and Volkswagen over union representation of employees at the Volkswagen Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, a document has surfaced which contains an agreement between the company and the union over the recognition of the UAW. Volkswagen has steadfastly denied UAW representation in Chattanooga, refusing to bargain with exclusively a group of maintenance workers who want union representation and claiming that they will only bargain with a bargaining unit comprised of both maintenance and production workers. An unfair labor practice has been filed against Volkswagen, whose Chattanooga plant is its only existing plant without union representation.