Fwd: RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERS OF TEAMSTERS 174 ENDORSE NADER!!!

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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:44:41 -0600
From: Chris Goodwin <ogchris@uswest.net>
Subject: [Fwd: RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERS OF TEAMSTERS 174 ENDORSE NADER!!! (fwd)]

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Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 1:30 AM +0000
From: Ramy Khalil <ramykhalil@hotmail.com>
Subject: RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERS OF TEAMSTERS 174 ENDORSE NADER!!!

> Please circulate widely!
>
>
> RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERS OF TEAMSTERS UNION LOCAL 174 ENDORSED RALPH NADER
> FOR PRESIDENT!!!
>
> At its general membership meeting in Seattle on September 10th, the
> rank-and-file members of the Teamsters Union Local #174 voted to endorse
> Independent candidate Ralph Nader for President.
>
> This decision goes against the endorsement of Democratic Party
> Presidential candidate Al Gore by the international leadership of the
> Teamsters Union.  After taking an internal poll that found 90% of
> Teamster leaders nation-wide supporting Al Gore, Hoffa and national
> Teamster leaders decided to formally endorse Gore on September 7th.
>
> Three days later, the members attending the meeting of the 6,000-member
> Teamsters Local 174 voted to endorse Ralph Nader for President.
> Truck-driver Doug Frechin, who is member of Socialist Alternative, the
> Labor Party, and a member of Teamsters 174, was the person who submitted
> the resolution to invite a speaker from the Nader for President campaign
> to their union meeeting.
>
> Doug Frechin said, "Union members have seen first-hand Ralph Nader's
> involvement in the WTO protests.  While Democratic Party politicians were
> trading away our jobs inside the WTO Conference, Ralph Nader was on the
> streets in Seattle protesting.  Ralph Nader is the only Presidential
> candidate who stands up for workers and opposes the so-called
> 'free-trade' agreements such as NAFTA.  He's the only candidate who is
> fighting for a $10/hour minimum wage and the repeal of the anti-union
> Taft Hartley Act."
>
> Mr Frechin continued, "The Teamsters shouldn't be wasting $9 million of
> our union dues on getting out the vote for the bosses' Democratic Party.
> It is time the unions quit trying to influence the corporate-dominated
> Democratic Party and built our own workers' party."
>
> For more information, contact Doug Frechin at (425) 775-2874.
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