Teamsters Still Undecided on Endorsement

July 31, 2000 2:45 PM, EDT

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is surveying its 1.5 million members to determine if they want to endorse anyone for president this November.

The answer to that question could be known by late August or early September, said union spokesman Bret Caldwell.

The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers remain the two heavyweight labor unions uncommitted thus far to a presidential candidate.

For a candidate to get the UAW endorsement and sway its 1.3 million workers, he will have to be an advocate of worker issues and develop a comprehensive platform around them, said Paul Krell, the union’s communication director in a July 24 telephone interview from Detroit, Mich. He said an endorsement won’t be dictated by who is favored in the polls.

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