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If I recall correctly, the big determination on whether this buyout would happen was negotiations withe the UAW and CAW. Now here's my question - now that EMD is part of another company, why are these two unions still representing the workforce? It's obvious that, as part of GM, EMD's workforce would be grouped into C/UAW population, but now they're not a subsidiary of a car company, and they definitely don't produce cars. And there's got to be a union out there for workers who produce large industrial equipment, which would be a better representation of what the EMD employees do than a union for auto workers.