ABC: West Virginia leaders reach deal to end teachers strike
Gov. Jim Justice and West Virginia’s Republican leaders tentatively agreed Tuesday to end the state’s nine-day teachers’ walkout by giving 5 percent raises to not just teachers, but all state workers. To pay for it, lawmakers will seek to cut state spending by $20 million, taking funds from…
The teacher strike in West Virginia may finally be coming to an end. News and Guts reader Jen Osha-Buysse is a teacher at the Morgantown Learning Academy in WV. She tells us:
“During the strike, my students stated that they learned that ‘if you work together, you can make a big difference in the world’ and ‘if you want to make your voice heard, you have to do something about it.’ We are very proud of our public school teachers for standing up for themselves, for their students, and for all of the public employees and hope that this labor movement is the beginning of real change in our state.”
