Fri
Sep 17 2010
07:03 am
KCEA endorses Randy Walker for State Senate
By: R. Neal

From a press release:

The Knox County Education Association (KCEA) has endorsed Randy Walker for the State Senate District 7 seat.

Walker: "I am committed to making Tennessee schools second to none as your State Senator. A strong school system and top notch teachers are critical in recruiting the kind of jobs and industry we need to put East Tennessee back to work."

Randy and his wife Cindy have been key leaders in Knox County youth services serving on the executive boards of the PTA, Cedar Bluff Farragut Optimists Club and founding Knox County’s only recreational youth volleyball league.

Other groups endorsing Randy Walker for State Senate are the Tennessee Firefighters Association, Knox County Building Trades Association, Atomic Trades and Labor Council and the Tennessee AFL-CIO.

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Tnmountain's picture

Unions are endoring the

Submitted by Tnmountain (not verified) on Fri, 2010/09/17 - 8:43am.

Unions are endoring the Democrat? Now THAT'S news!

marytheprez's picture

Union endorsement

Submitted by marytheprez (not verified) on Fri, 2010/09/17 - 9:05am.

FYi, unions have most always endorsed Democratic candidates. Why? Because they realize that the Democratic Party shares their goals and objectives...good jobs with decent salaries, benefits, and safety and security protection in the workplace.

Further, the Democratic Party created decent wage and hour laws, pay for working overtime, a 40 hour workweek and child labor laws to protect children in this country.

The GOP is the party of corporate greed, protecting employers who want to exploit workers. Examples are: Massey Coal in WV, a foreign own coal corporation, denied workers access to join a union, committed 120+ safety violations in one mine which directly caused the deaths of 29 miners. Or BP, the Oil giant that has so far refused to pay the families of those lost in the Gulf explosion, a decent settlement of their loss.

So, yeah labor unions have supported the Democratic Party, and we welcome their help!

michael kaplan's picture

child labor laws

Submitted by michael kaplan on Fri, 2010/09/17 - 3:34pm.

i believe you're correct, mary. this was a long process that "culminated in the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which set federal standards for child labor."

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Hate to educate a lost soul

Submitted by You betcha! (not verified) on Fri, 2010/09/17 - 2:21pm.

Hate to educate a lost soul but it was Republican Teddy Roosevelt (Child labor,+) and Richard Nixon (OSHA,+)who did most of that.

fischbobber's picture

Hate to educate a lost soul

Submitted by fischbobber on Fri, 2010/09/17 - 11:45pm.

Hate to educate a lost soul but it was Republican Teddy Roosevelt (Child labor,+) and Richard Nixon (OSHA,+)who did most of that.

So educate us oh smart brazen one. Explain and justify your statement.

Rachel's picture

I don't think the Rs even

Submitted by Rachel on Sat, 2010/09/18 - 11:03pm.

I don't think the Rs even claim Teddy any more. Well, maybe the neocons.

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