“There is a level of engagement that I haven’t seen before. People are woke,” said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten when we spoke late Saturday night. Weingarten’s call to action came as the leader of 1.5 million-member AFT was wrapping up a whirlwind week

Greetings from the top of Lydia Street, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has returned from an inspiring trip to the historic statewide teachers’ strike in West Virginia. See Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk’s dispatch in the Guardian from the picket lines in Wheeling, West Virginia on

Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk traveled to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he filed a dispatch for the Guardian: Despite the state enacting anti-union “right-to-work” legislation in 2016, support for the teachers among the public remains strong in the once union stronghold of West Virginia. On the

This Thursday and Friday, thousands of West Virginia Teachers in all 55 counties have voted to go on the first statewide teachers’ strike since 1990. The teachers are protesting poverty-level wages and increasing health care costs. “We can’t wait, and we won’t wait,” said Christine Campbell, president