Top executives at Volkswagen AG started high-level negotiations with the UAW on Friday on how the union might represent workers at VW's assembly plant in Chattanooga, a German newspaper reported today.
According to a report in Handelsblatt, UAW President Bob King met with Horst Neumann, the board member for human resources at VW, during a meeting that started Friday at the automaker's corporate headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper reports that they discussed setting up a German-style "works council" to represent workers at the Chattanooga plant.
The UAW and VW declined to comment on the report.
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