{"id":350570,"date":"2018-03-03T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/all-west-virginia-schools-closed-today-as-teachers-rebellion-continues\/"},"modified":"2018-03-03T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T01:01:09","slug":"all-west-virginia-schools-closed-today-as-teachers-rebellion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/all-west-virginia-schools-closed-today-as-teachers-rebellion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"All West Virginia schools closed today as teachers\u2019 rebellion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>All West Virginia schools closed today as teachers\u2019 rebellion continues<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jerry White<br \/>\n    <br \/>2 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The insurgent movement of teachers and other school employees in West Virginia continued Friday, with more than 30,000 public education workers staying off the job and forcing the closure of schools throughout the state\u2019s 55 counties. Despite the efforts of the unions and the Democrats and Republicans to shut down the strike, the movement is gaining momentum with public school students joining protests at the state Capitol in Charleston today.<\/p>\n<p>After being forced to call a statewide strike last Thursday and Friday that was extended to Monday and Tuesday, the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA) and American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia (AFT-WV) abruptly announced that they had reached an agreement with the state\u2019s billionaire governor, Jim Justice, on Tuesday night. WVEA President Dale Lee, AFT-WV President Christine Campbell and West Virginia School Service Personnel Association (WVSSPA) President Joe White then ordered their members to return to work Thursday after a \u201ccooling-off period\u201d Wednesday, without even allowing workers to vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/0ab88240-3af5-4387-b6d8-581c6f5abdbK\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\"  width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Teachers demonstrate inside the State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Union officials hailed the governor\u2019s flimsy promise to get the state legislature to approve a one-time 5 percent raise and appoint a bipartisan task force, including union officials, to propose a solution to the long-underfunded Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA). This outraged striking teachers and other school workers who have been facing crushing healthcare costs as the state shifts the expense of substandard medical coverage onto workers\u2019 backs. Strikers insisted they would not return to work without a long-term solution to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/02\/west-m02.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 All West Virginia schools closed today as teachers\u2019 rebellion continues By Jerry White 2 March 2018 The insurgent movement of teachers and other school employees in West Virginia continued Friday, with more than 30,000 public education workers staying off the job and forcing the closure of schools throughout the state\u2019s 55 counties. Despite the [&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-350570","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\/350570","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=350570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}