Eric Zorn: West Virginia teachers' victory gives hope to sagging labor movement
by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
Mar 07, 2018
3 minutes
Late in this winter of organized labor's discontent, the green shoots of what some are calling the "West Virginia Spring" have broken through.
A dramatic and possibly illegal statewide job walk-off by 35,000 public school employees in West Virginia that began Feb. 22 ended Tuesday in a victory for the educators - a raise five times higher than what the state's governor had first proposed and a promise to attempt to curb their rising health insurance premiums.
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