DEC 7 at 5PM - Teamsters Presidential Candidate Forum, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Teamsters Announce Presidential Candidate Forum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Focused on Worker Issues

(WASHINGTON) -- As 2020 presidential hopefuls continue to vie to win working people’s votes, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), representing a diverse 1.4 million members nationwide, today announced the details of a presidential candidate forum focused on issues facing workers. The forum, organized in partnership with The Guardian and The Storm Lake Times, will take place on Saturday, December 7, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Vice President Joe Biden, Gov. Steve Bullock, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Bernie Sanders are confirmed to participate. Presidential candidates who agreed to sign the union’s three-point pledge and participated in an on-camera interview with the IBT were invited to attend the forum.

Candidates will appear individually on stage, where they will take questions from moderators Leslie Marshall and Art Cullen and Teamsters members from Iowa and other key 2020 states. Marshall is a political analyst and host of The Leslie Marshall Show, and Cullen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The Storm Lake Times. The discussion at the forum will be focused on issues affecting Teamsters and their families.

Presidential candidates looking to win the union’s support are required to sign the IBT’s three-point pledge on key member issues; participate in an on-camera interview; grant card-check neutrality if their campaign staff seeks to form a union; and partner with the union in support of specific organizing campaigns, strike efforts or contract negotiations.