Siemens' new plant for Smart Infrastructure products at Fort Worth, Texas, is close to the factory in Grand Prairie, where the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has been representing workers for many years. Since the US-management refused to acknowledge IBEW as representation of the workers in Fort Worth, although IBEW could prove the support of the majority of the workers, IBEW had to go the way of a union election according to US law.