-----Original Message----- From: Olson, Gary L <olson at moravian.edu> Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: [laborpartyusa] Hold Your Breath: Teamsters & Nader Announcement
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>> HOLD YOUR BREATH
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>> Teamsters to Make Joint Announcement With Nader
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>> Updated 4:44 PM ET June 20, 2000
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>> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Teamsters union said on Tuesday its president
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>> James Hoffa would hold a joint news conference with Green Party
>> presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Thursday, but neither side would
>> comment on prospects for a presidential endorsement.
>>
>> A brief statement from the 1.5 million strong union said: "International
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>> Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa will hold a
>> press conference with Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
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>> "The press conference will follow an appearance by Nader at the
>> Teamsters
>> general executive board meeting. A special statement will be made
>> concerning the 2000 presidential election."
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>> An endorsement, should it occur, would be a major boost to Nader's
>> campaign and a slap in the face for the Democratic Party and Vice
>> President Al Gore, its presidential candidate.
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>> Last year, the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers abstained when the
>> AFL-CIO labor federation endorsed Gore. Hoffa has been angry since
>> Clinton administration officials supported Ron Carey, his rival for the
>> Teamsters presidency in 1996.
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>> Carey narrowly won the election but a judge ordered a rerun election in
>> 1998 after finding that aides to Carey had siphoned union money into the
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>> Carey campaign.
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>> At the rank-and-file level, many union members are upset by the Clinton
>> administration's support of permanent normal trade relations with China.
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>> The Teamsters and the UAW led labor's unsuccessful drive to defeat trade
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>> normalization with China, which is supported by Gore as well as
>> Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush.
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>> While the Teamsters Union under Carey supported President Clinton, it
>> was
>> the one major national union which consistently backed Republican
>> presidential candidates in the 1970s and 1980s.
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>> Nader, 66, a well-known consumer rights advocate, is expected to win the
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>> Green Party's presidential nomination at a convention in Denver this
>> weekend.
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>> He said last week he aimed to get the Green Party on the ballot in all
>> 50
>> states and raise $5 million for a campaign targeted especially at labor
>> union members upset by Gore's support of free trade agreements.
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>> Nader is running at around 4 percent in recent national polls but is
>> particularly strong in California, where one survey put him as high as 9
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>> percent, and on the East Coast.
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>> Some Democrats fear in a close race between Gore and Bush, Nader could
>> tip the balance in the direction of the Texas governor in the Nov. 7
>> election.
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>> Nader said recently he shared a common interest with the Teamsters in
>> their opposition to what he termed "corporate globalization."
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>> He also advocates strengthening labor laws to make it easier for workers
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>> to form trade unions.
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