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Union officials: Teacher strike continues Tuesday

February 26, 2018

Featured Christine Campbell (AFT-WV); Cecil Roberts (UMW); Joe White (WV School Service Personnel Association) Excerpt Union leaders announced Monday the statewide teacher and school service personnel work stoppage would continue Tuesday. Speaking at a rally on the Capitol steps, Christine Campbell, president of…

Public schools to stay closed Monday as teacher strike continues

February 25, 2018

Featured Mandy Edwards Excerpt The statewide West Virginia teacher strike continued for a second day on Friday, but for Jennifer Holley and Rashard Clark, it was mostly business as usual at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, in downtown Charleston.…

WV school employee strike explained

February 24, 2018

Excerpt West Virginia is in the middle of its second-ever teacher strike. Teachers, this time joined by school service personnel, walked off the job Thursday, when thousands came to the state Capitol to show their frustration with legislators and Gov. Jim Justice over what…

Community groups looking out for kids during WV teacher strike

February 23, 2018

Featured Mandy Edwards Excerpt The statewide West Virginia teacher strike continued for a second day on Friday, but for Jennifer Holley and Rashard Clark, it was mostly business as usual at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, in downtown Charleston. “We do…

Thousands of school employees converge on Capitol amid work stoppage

February 22, 2018

Featured Randi Weingarten (AFT); Christine Campbell (AFT-WV); Donald Thomas Excerpt All 55 West Virginia counties closed their public schools Thursday for the first day of what unions have announced, so far, will be a two-day work stoppage by public school employees —…

“They just don’t care”: Boone County school employees rally

February 22, 2018

Featured Kelli Vance; Heather Ritter; Barbara Stowers; Scott Parsley; Casey Harmon Excerpt MADISON — As she was studying at Marshall University to be a teacher three years ago, Kelli Vance’s professors told her and her classmates that in the first few years…

WV students stand in solidarity with school employees

February 21, 2018

Featured Fred Albert (AFT-WV in Kanawha County); Dinah Adkins (WVEA-Kanawha County) Excerpt A day before their teachers plan to walk out in protest against the Legislature, students at more than a dozen high schools in West Virginia showed up to class Wednesday…

Morrisey to oppose “illegal” planned statewide school work stoppages

February 21, 2018

Featured Bob Brown (AFT-WV); Dale Lee (WVEA) Excerpt Public school employee union leaders said Wednesday the statewide work stoppages they previously announced were on track to occur Thursday and Friday, and the West Virginia attorney general said in a news release that…

WV Legislature presents teachers with pay raise ultimatum: 4 percent over 3 years

February 20, 2018

Featured Dale Lee (WVEA); Christine Campbell (AFT-WV); Mary Cathryn Ricker (AFT); Becky Pringle (NEA); Joe White (WV School Service Personnel Association); Greg Baker (WV Trooper Association); Josh Sword (WV AFL-CIO); Ken Hall (WV Teamsters); Levi Allen (UMW); Becky Hiteshew; Rachel Weber Excerpt…

PEIA Finance Board approves freeze on 2018-19 benefits plan

February 20, 2018

Featured Dale Lee (WVEA); Christine Campbell (AFT-WV); Mary Cathryn Ricker (AFT); Becky Pringle (NEA); Joe White (WV School Service Personnel Association); Greg Baker (WV Trooper Association); Josh Sword (WV AFL-CIO); Ken Hall (WV Teamsters); Levi Allen (UMW); Becky Hiteshew; Rachel Weber Excerpt…

WV school employees may face legal consequences for work stoppage

February 20, 2018

Featured Dale Lee (WVEA); Christine Campbell (AFT-WV); Mary Cathryn Ricker (AFT); Becky Pringle (NEA); Joe White (WV School Service Personnel Association); Greg Baker (WV Trooper Association); Josh Sword (WV AFL-CIO); Ken Hall (WV Teamsters); Levi Allen (UMW); Becky Hiteshew; Rachel Weber Excerpt…

Senate trying to put together pay, PEIA plan ahead of teachers’ walkout

February 19, 2018

Excerpt West Virginia Senate leadership is scrambling to come up with a compromise on pay and PEIA benefits before a scheduled statewide teachers walkout Thursday, but Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, said Monday it’s unlikely the Senate will support more than a 2 percent…