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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">booktv 220</font></div><div><span class="title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Poppins, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?466815-1/red-state-revolt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 118, 170); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt"</a></span><span class="abstract" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Poppins, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former educator Eric Blanc reported on the grassroots organizing that led…</span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> <b>2018–19 education workers' strikes in the United States</b> began on February 22, 2018, after local activists compelled the West Virginia state leadership of the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association into holding a strike vote. The strike—which ended when teachers returned to their classrooms on March 7—inspired similar, statewide strikes in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Oklahoma_teachers%27_strike" title="2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oklahoma</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Arizona_teachers%27_strike" title="2018 Arizona teachers' strike" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arizona</a>. It also inspired smaller-scale protests by school staff in Kentucky, North Carolina, Colorado, and led to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_DeKalb_County_School_District_bus_drivers%27_strike" title="2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">school bus driver strike</a> in Georgia. Additionally, around this time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjunct_professors" class="mw-redirect" title="Adjunct professors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">adjunct professors</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Commonwealth_University" title="Virginia Commonwealth University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia Commonwealth University</a> in Richmond, Virginia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCUarts_adjunct_workers%27_protests" title="VCUarts adjunct workers' protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">protested over pay</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The strikes continued in the fall of 2018 when there was a collective bargaining shortcoming between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Teachers_Los_Angeles" title="United Teachers Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Teachers Los Angeles</a> union and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Unified_School_District" title="Los Angeles Unified School District" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles Unified School District</a> in September 2018, prompting a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Los_Angeles_Unified_School_District_teachers%27_strike" title="2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">strike</a> that began in January 2019. This also resulted in a teachers' walkout in Virginia, a long-time right-to-work state, as well as in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Public_Schools" title="Denver Public Schools" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Denver</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Unified_School_District#2019_strike" title="Oakland Unified School District" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oakland, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> The national wave of strikes has been referred to as <b>Red for Ed</b> or <b>#RedforEd</b>, with striking workers often wearing red shirts to show solidarity.<sup id="cite_ref-Racked_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-Racked-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> Reasons given for the choice of the color red range from the fact that many of the initial strikes were in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states" title="Red states and blue states" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">red (Republican-controlled) states</a> to the idea that public school budgets are <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_red" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:in the red" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">in the red</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Racked_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-Racked-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Motivations for the strikes included desire for increased wages for teachers and support staff, larger school budgets, smaller classrooms, and other issues. The strikes varied in their levels of success, with West Virginia considered mostly successful, where Oklahoman teachers received relatively few concessions.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2><span class="toctogglespan" style=""><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></span></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Origins_and_overview" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Origins and overview</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Pension_costs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Pension costs</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Demands" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Demands</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Strikes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Strikes</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Summary_of_strikes_and_protests_by_location" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Summary of strikes and protests by location</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Major_events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Major events</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Arizona</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Colorado</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Los_Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Los Angeles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#North_Carolina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">North Carolina</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#Oklahoma" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Oklahoma</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#West_Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">West Virginia</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="mw-headline" id="Origins_and_overview" style="">Origins and overview</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">In early April, Oklahoma became the</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Oklahoma_teachers%27_strike" title="2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">second state to strike</a></b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b>,</b> making it the first time a teacher's strike was held in the state since 1990.</span><sup id="cite_ref-intercept_14-0" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-intercept-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">The strike lasted for 10 days, from April 2-12, after teacher salaries were increased by $6,000 and support staff salaries were increased by $1,250.</span><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Discussions of a strike in West Virginia began in early 2018. In the first week of February, teachers staged "walk-ins" at schools and some protested at the West Virginia Capitol.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> The strike proved successful, and inspired those in other states to strike as well.<sup id="cite_ref-Rios_Mother_Jones_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-Rios_Mother_Jones-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In late April, teachers in Arizona and in Colorado</b> went on strike. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Colorado_teachers%27_strike" title="2018 Colorado teachers' strike" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colorado strike</a> began on April 27<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> and ended on May 12,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> while the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Arizona_teachers%27_strike" title="2018 Arizona teachers' strike" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arizona Strike</a> lasted from April 26 to May 3.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In May 2018, it was reported that teachers in North Carolina</b> could be next to strike, making it the fifth state to have a teachers' strike.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> This was due to the state being ranked 41st in the nation in salaries for teachers, and per pupil spending at negative 12 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> Further, it was reported that teachers in North Carolina have seen a five percent decrease in salaries since 2008. Furthermore, teachers hired after January 1, 2021, will not receive health benefits, along with teachers having to pay $10,000 per year in out of pocket health insurance.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because of a majority of the strikes being in predominantly Republican Party-controlled, conservative states,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> the strikes have been referred to as the "Red State Revolt".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup> This has prompted several Republican politicians to concede to their demands, in the run-up to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,2018" class="mw-redirect" title="United States elections, 2018" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2018 mid-term elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Pension_costs">Pension costs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Pension costs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the largest reasons for decreasing teacher pay and less funding for schools is the large amount of money diverted from current budgets to pay educators' unfunded pension liabilities. <sup id="cite_ref-PBS_pensions_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-PBS_pensions-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">:<span title="" among="Among" the="the" biggest="biggest" reasons="reasons" for="for" lagging="lagging" pay="pay" is="is" one="one" of="of" least="least" understood="understood" rising="rising" cost="cost" state="state" pensions="pensions" public="Public" pension="pension" systems="systems" nationwide="nationwide" face="face" record="record" levels="levels" debt="debt" totaling="totaling" trillion="trillion" according="according" to="to" a="a" recent="recent" pew="Pew" charitable="Charitable" trusts="Trusts" study="study" that="That" puts="puts" downward="downward" pressure="pressure" on="on" wages="wages" and="and" benefit="benefit" checks="checks" as="as" governments="governments" struggle="struggle" close="close" funding="funding" gap="gap" it="It" suggests="suggests" outcry="outcry" over="over" teacher="teacher" could="could" spread="spread" in="in" coming="coming" years="years" whether="whether" costs="costs" are="are" widely="widely" acknowledged="acknowledged" driving="driving" factor="factor" or="or" not="not" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed;">1</span></sup> For example: "In Colorado, school district payments to the public pension fund have roughly doubled since 2006, from about 10 percent of payroll to 20 percent." <sup id="cite_ref-PBS_pensions_27-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-PBS_pensions-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2016 study found that only 30% of the money that school districts pay towards the retirement benefits of an educator actually go toward that educator's pension, with 70% being used to pay off unfunded debt in that pension system. <sup id="cite_ref-PBS_pensions_27-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-PBS_pensions-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">:<span title="" current="Current" teachers="teachers" indirectly="indirectly" paying="paying" for="for" their="their" predecessors="predecessors" retirement="retirement" is="is" not="not" unique="unique" to="to" colorado="Colorado" a="A" study="study" by="by" bellwether="Bellwether" education="Education" partners="Partners" found="found" that="that" of="of" every="every" school="school" districts="districts" contribute="contribute" the="the" pension="pension" each="each" educator="educator" nationally="nationally" are="are" off="off" unfunded="unfunded" debts="debts" with="with" just="Just" going="going" worker="worker" s="s" disparity="disparity" about="about" twice="twice" as="as" stark="stark" in="in" spent="spent" per="per" teacher="teacher" goes="goes" according="according" an="an" analysis="analysis" state="state" system="system" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed;">1</span></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Demands">Demands</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Demands" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Universally, demands included raising pay.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> In Oklahoma and West Virginia, respectively sources of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_in_Oklahoma" title="Oil in Oklahoma" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">oil</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_West_Virginia#Energy" title="Economy of West Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">coal</a>, demands included financing the increased spending on education through taxation focused on these industries.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Original reason for the strike included the state's plan to force teachers to use fitbit to be allowed to keep subscribing to the same healthplan or face a $500 annual fine.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_workers%27_strikes_in_the_United_States#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">beat him badly with rallies (al 55 counties) and amb from other states that followed eg oklahoma</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teachers in West Virginia celebrated a major victory Tuesday when a contested education reform bill was blocked by House delegates, just hours into a statewide strike protesting the legislation. The bill would have legalized charter schools, which are currently not allowed in West Virginia. Teachers’ unions say they were not consulted in the drafting of the legislation and that it was retaliation for last year’s historic strike, which was credited with launching a wave of teacher walkouts in other red states. Teachers are set to continue their strike for now.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2/19 dn</font></p><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px 0px 23px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.33;"><a data-ga-action="Home Headlines: Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/20/headlines/west_virginia_teachers_celebrate_as_lawmakers_halt_pro_charter_school_bill" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">West Virginia Teachers Celebrate as Lawmakers Halt Pro-Charter School Bill</font></a></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">W<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hile the pussy hat became the best-known symbol of the Women’s March in 2017, the West Virginia education strikers of 2018 had their own head gear: red bandanas and occasional bunny ears. The bandanas were a nod to labor history in West Virginia—striking miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain tied the bandanas around their necks to symbolize solidarity that spanned differences in ethnicities and languages, making them the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://wvpublic.org/post/do-you-know-where-word-redneck-comes-mine-wars-museum-opens-revives-lost-labor-history#stream/0" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: border 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">original rednecks</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. But it was also a defiant gesture to Gov. Jim Justice (R), who told a crowd at a town hall at Wheeling Park High School that he could be “</span><a href="http://www.wtrf.com/news/education/w-va-governor-talks-work-stoppage-in-wheeling-town-hall/992616486" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: border 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">the town redneck, too</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.”</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bunny ears came after Governor Justice declared the teachers were “<a href="http://www.wvea.org/content/%E2%80%98dumb-bunnies%E2%80%99-wv-teacher-crowds-protest-comment-governor-justice" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; background: 0px 0px; box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: border 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">dumb bunnies</a>” if they trusted other politicians rather than him.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Virginia teachers were angry, not just about rising health care costs, but about the asinine behavior, lack of concern, and obvious contempt from their legislators.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The anger of the teachers took some of those legislators, and even union leadership, by surprise. Others say it was a long time coming and clearly visible. State Del. Mike Pushkin (D) said in a phone interview with </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">Rewire.News</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that he believes it goes back to th</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">e governor’s State of the State address, when he and his newly adopted Republican Party did “a victory lap before they’d run the race.” Pushkin said Justice declared the state was in the black, but the governor hadn’t contended with, among other things, the lack of a dedicated revenue stream for the Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA), which covers health care for thousands of current and retired public employees and their families. ...</span></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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