| 'All-In or Nothing': How West Virginia's Teacher Strike Was Months in the Making |
| Saturday, 03 March 2018 09:47 |
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Excerpt: "Home from a long day teaching English last month at Mingo Central High School, Robin Ellis told her husband the latest talk among the teachers. They were tired of low pay and costly health benefits - and they were mulling a 'rolling strike,' in which teachers in a few counties would walk out each day."
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“You don’t want to do that,” Donnie Ellis, her husband, said. As a veteran of strip mines and the intense labor conflicts that often came with them, he knew what made some strikes succeed and others crumble. “It’s got to be all-in or nothing,” he said. |
| Last Updated on Saturday, 03 March 2018 10:03 |
ome from a long day teaching English last month at Mingo Central High School, Robin Ellis told her husband the latest talk among the teachers. They were tired of low pay and costly health benefits — and they were mulling a “rolling strike,” in which teachers in a few counties would walk out each day.