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View: Is the West Virginia teachers’ strike the future of American labor?

Is the West Virginia teachers’ strike the future of American labor?

March 5, 2018

Featured Amy Neal (AFT-WV in Cabell County) Excerpt (CNN) - As the West Virginia teachers' strike enters its second week, there is a growing sense in progressive circles -- and among organized labor activists -- that what's happening in the Mountain State…

View: Here’s Why West Virginia Teachers Are On Strike

Here’s Why West Virginia Teachers Are On Strike

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,…

View: Community groups looking out for kids during WV teacher strike

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…

View: West Virginia Teachers Walk Out Over Pay, Benefits

West Virginia Teachers Walk Out Over Pay, Benefits

February 23, 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…

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

“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…

View: WV students stand in solidarity with school employees

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…

Food backpacks going out across state ahead of planned teacher, school service worker walkouts

February 20, 2018

Excerpt HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Many West Virginia students won’t be getting the school meals they depend on during this week’s two-day statewide walkout for teachers and school service workers. To help with that, many food banks and other organizations across the Mountain State are…

View: W. Va. teachers preparing for strike make sure empty classrooms won’t mean hungry students

W. Va. teachers preparing for strike make sure empty classrooms won’t mean hungry students

February 19, 2018

Featured Renee Haines; Kasey Whisel Excerpt MARTINSBURG, W. Va. (ABC7) — Schools in West Virginia are bracing for a walk-out. Teachers across the state are threatening to strike this Thursday and Friday in a dispute over wages and insurance premiums. But as…