From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Union Endorses LYNN YEAKEL for SENATE
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:53:58 GMT

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Topic 264       OCAW Endorses Yeakel for Senate 
ocaw@igc.org    Labor News & Notes       3:33 pm  Aug 24, 1992 
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      Union Endorses Lynn Yeakel in Pennsylvania Senate Race 
  
     LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- The executive board of the 100,000-member Oil, 
Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, in session here 
yesterday, endorsed Democratic candidate Lynn Yeakel in her campaign 
to become U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.  The endorsement was 
announced by OCAW Executive Board member Liz Bettinger.  Bettinger, 
37, a chemical industry worker and president of OCAW Local 8-719 at 
Minersville, Pa., represents nearly 25,000 members from 11 eastern 
states (including approximately 10,000 in Pennsylvania) on the OCAW 
board. 

     "On issues important to working people, Lynn Yeakel supports them 
up and down the line, no exceptions," Bettinger said.  "National 
health care for all Americans; job creation instead of job 
destruction; real help for the unemployed and homeless; strengthening 
education; economic conversion from defense spending to meaningful 
social investment, including a new G.I. Bill of Rights for working 
people; restoring and enforcing civil rights standards; a trade policy 
that protects worker rights and the global environment; a striker 
replacement bill that ends the practice of firing striking workers - 
you name it, she's for it, if it's in the interest of ordinary people 
who have to work for a living." 

     "We know where Lynn Yeakel stands," Bettinger added.  "She takes 
a position and stands rock-solid behind it.  But Arlen Specter runs 
away from the issues, because dealing with them would expose his 
abysmal record, and he doesn't want to call attention to that.  If you 
aren't part of the solution, then you're part of the problem, and 
Specter is definitely in the latter category.  It's time for a 
change." 

     "Yeakel is helping to lead a revolution in Pennsylvania politics, 
and we're going to be with her every step of the way," said Bettinger.  
"The members of our union will do whatever it takes for her to beat 
Arlen Specter.  We'll donate funds, rally union people, work the 
precincts, answer phones, knock on doors, get people to the polls, 
anything that will help ensure victory." 

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