The United Auto Workers union already represents employees at several Flex-N-Gate factories, and is campaigning to organize others.

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At Khan's Flex-N-Gate, some criticism of working conditions has arisen amid union efforts to organize.

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The region covers EU countries such as Bulgaria and Romania, as well as Turkey and ex-Soviet Union countries including Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and was described by Romanian MEP Ioan Pascu as a "gate to and from Europe".

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