United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts was the featured speaker at the Kentucky State AFL-CIO’s recent 33rd biennial convention in Lexington.
Other featured speakers included Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America. Brown was introduced by Tim Burga, Ohio State AFL-CIO president.
The speaker’s lineup also included House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins (D-Sandy Hook), and the state AFL-CIO-endorsed Democratic ticket for the Nov. 5 election: Andy Beshear, governor; Jacqueline Coleman, lieutenant governor; Greg Stumbo, attorney general; Heather French Henry, secretary of state; Sheri Donahue, auditor, Michael Bowman, state treasurer; and Robert Haley Conway, commissioner of agriculture.
In addition, Michael O. Caperton took his turn at the microphone. Also labor-endorsed, Caperton is running for reelection to the Kentucky State Court of Appeals. His race is non-partisan.
Rounding out the parade of speakers were other national, state and local labor leaders, state and local office-holders from Lexington and others. The convention met on Monday and Tuesday at the Embassy Suites on Newtown Pike, the location of the 2017 convention.
Here is a gallery of pictures from the convention: