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In this Feb 15, 2008 file photo, a worker attaches the VW-Emblem to a Volkswagen Golf at the manufacturing line in the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, northern Germany. Germany's Volkswagen AG says, Monday, July 7, 2008, it will likely announce a decision on its plans for a new U.S. plant after a supervisory board meeting July 15. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- If Volkswagen AG decides to build its U.S. assembly plant in the South, the German company will join other foreign automakers that are increasingly turning the region into a hotbed of car manufacturing. The South offers automakers ample highway and rail systems and proximity to the large market of U.S. consumers. But its main attraction: Existing auto plant workers, even those who are victims of other industries exporting jobs, have rejected overtures by the United Auto... [read full story]
