{"id":350004,"date":"2018-02-27T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/teachers-speak-out-on-the-struggle-in-west-virginia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T06:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T05:48:14","slug":"teachers-speak-out-on-the-struggle-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/teachers-speak-out-on-the-struggle-in-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers speak out on the struggle in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cThe politicians don\u2019t want to fund education; they\u2019d rather fund war\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Teachers speak out on the struggle in West Virginia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    a reporting team<br \/>\n    <br \/>26 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>\u201cThis struggle reminds me of the conditions of the labor movement in the 1800s,\u201d Debbie, a West Virginia teacher, told the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em>. \u201cThis movement today allows us to see where we have come from. While there are differences, there was enormous poverty among the workers back then, and they began a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie was speaking about the strike of West Virginia teachers, which is continuing into a third day today. Teachers are demanding a significant pay increase and an end to soaring health care costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you heard of the Battle of Blair Mountain? Workers were living in tents. The Corporations sent a train of strikebreakers and used Gatling guns. 15,000 workers began a march against the corporations. This is the only state where the Air Force was sent to bomb the workers who were fighting for their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid this could become like Wisconsin,\u201d she said, referring to the defeat of teachers and public sector workers in 2011 after the unions corralled mass struggles behind the recall of Republican Scott Walker. Debbie said that she was of the opinion that neither the Democrats nor Republicans speak for the working class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m also afraid they can outlast us. Tomorrow I believe they will file a court injunction to try to force the teachers back to work, then there will be a series of votes. My county will vote no, but I don\u2019t know how it will go statewide. I agree, there needs to be a struggle of all the working people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/29870f27-fcac-4a8f-b2be-71911db2706B\/image.png?rendition=image480\"  width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Zelda, on the right, at the protests in Charleston<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Zelda, a cook in the Mingo County schools, told the WSWS, \u201cI heard [Governor] Jim&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/26\/inte-f26.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cThe politicians don\u2019t want to fund education; they\u2019d rather fund war\u201d Teachers speak out on the struggle in West Virginia By a reporting team 26 February 2018 \u201cThis struggle reminds me of the conditions of the labor movement in the 1800s,\u201d Debbie, a West Virginia teacher, told the World Socialist Web Site. \u201cThis movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}