West Virginia public sector workers don’t enjoy formal collective bargaining rights under state law. The teacher pay scale is set by the state legislature, making teachers’ unions more like associations, lobbying lawmakers on members’ concerns. Massive strikes like the one in West Virginia almost never happen anymore. Early in the strike, West Virginia Gov. A secret Facebook group for West Virginia public employees grew to include 24,000 members by mid-February, as Cathy Kunkel detailed in Jacobin.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2018 18:56 UTC