Dave Jamieson/HuffPost West Virginia teachers went on strike almost exactly a year ago, with a contingent of them converging on the state capitol in Charleston. West Virginia teachers are deciding this week whether to authorize their unions to lead another massive walkout, a little less than a year after they started a cascade of historic teacher strikes around the country. The ongoing discontent among the teachers is directly related to last year’s unrest. “We feel like it’s retaliation for what we did last spring,” said Fred Albert, president of the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia, one of the state’s two main teachers unions. Even so, Kym Randolph, spokeswoman for the West Virginia Education Association, said they consider the package a serious threat, noting that it only takes a simple majority in each legislative chamber to override a governor’s veto.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2019 23:15 UTC