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Statewide walkout announced for West Virginia school teachers, employees on Thursday and Friday

By CAITY COYNE

Charleston Gazette-Mail

Christine Campbell, president of the West Virginia American Federation of Teachers, and other union leaders call for teachers and school service personnel across the state to participate in a walkout during Saturday’s rally at the Capitol.
(Gazette-Mail photo by Craig Hudson)

School teachers and service personnel from all 55 counties will participate in West Virginia’s first statewide walkout Thursday and Friday, union leaders announced Saturday.

The announcement came at the end of a rally featuring thousands of teachers and others at the state Capitol, and follows weeks of growing tension between public employees, educators and the state Legislature regarding concerns with pay and health care.

“The entire state of West Virginia will be shut down,” said Dale Lee, president of West Virginia Education Association. “We are standing united — all 55. Will you stand with us?”

The work action is a last message to legislators at the Capitol “to do your jobs, or we’ll vote you out,” said Christine Campbell, president of the West Virginia American Federation of Teachers.

Mary Cathryn Ricker, executive vice president of the national AFT, and Becky Pringle, vice president of the National Education Association, came to West Virginia for the rally. They expressed to all the teachers that they were setting examples for their colleagues across the country.

Read the entire article: https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/education/statewide-walkout-announced-for-school-teachers-employees-on-thursday-and/article_ad7043a7-074d-5adf-b6ac-4ac69aca1260.html

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