Here are the latest union endorsements for the primary

BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

With the Democratic gubernatorial primary less than a month away, the three main contenders are drawing union support. 

Louisville-based Teamsters Local 89 endorsed Attorney Gen. Andy Beshear today, according to the campaign's Brad Bowman.

Beshear, House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins and former auditor Adam Edelen are the frontrunners for their party's nod. Perennial candidate Geoff Young rounds out the field.

The primary is May 21.

Here are the union and union-related endorsements as reported to us by the campaigns.

ADKINS 

Laborers’ Local 576 (Louisville); Covington Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 38; Laborers Local 1445 (Catlettsburg), Tri-State Building and Construction Trades Council (Ashland); United Steelworkers Local 14581 (Elkhorn City), the United Mine Workers of America and the Boyd County Education Association (Catlettsburg).   

BESHEAR

Teamsters Local 89 (Louisville); Teamsters Local 783 (Louisville) and Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 184 (Paducah).

EDELEN

Jefferson County Teachers Association (Louisville), AFSCME Local 4011 (Louisville) and Louisville Federation of Retired Firefighters. 

Last month, the state AFL-CIO Executive Board, acting as the state COPE Committee, voted "no recommendation" For Adkins, Beshear, Edelen and Young and state Rep. Robert Goforth, who is one of three challengers to Gov. Matt Bevin in the GOP primary.

"No recommendation" means that union locals can get behind candidates of their choice as long as those candidates don't receive a "no endorsement." 

Bevin and his two other primary challengers, Ike Lawrence and William Woods, received a "no endorsement."

The COPE committee made only one endorsement--for former House Speaker Greg Stumbo, who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary for attorney general, a post he held in 2004-2008.

The COPE committee will meet again after the primary to endorse candidates for the general election, which is Nov. 5.