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Teachers rally, meeting to consider strike authorization votes
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Strike authorization votes could come from teachers in a handful of West Virginia counties Monday evening as frustration grows with rising insurance costs and a proposed one percent pay increase in each of the next five years.
Teachers rallied Monday morning at several locations in Wyoming County. Parents and elected officials...
Lawmakers, education associations share frustration about financial situation
By Alex Thomas, WV MetroNews
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Sen. Richard Ojeda, D-Logan, compared the anger among public employees in recent weeks to a powder keg, adding state lawmakers fear it is “about to go off.”
“These people are tired,” he said. “They aren’t making it month to month. Teachers are cutting their medication in half.”
Ojeda was one of six...
Butch Antolini, Butch.Antolini@wv.gov
1/29/2018
Justice administration changes pay raise bill to reflect multi-year increases
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice’s pay raise bill for state workers now includes language that says it will be a multi-year raise for teachers and all other state workers.
The bill (SB 267) passed the Senate Finance Committee on a voice vote Thursday afternoon. The committee voted on a bill that was different from the original...
Unions hold press conference over unrest with salary and PEIA proposals
CHARLESTON – Speaking on behalf of thousands of public employees, leaders from AFT-WV, WVEA, UMWA, CWA and the West Virginia AFL-CIO called on lawmakers to work on a long-term strategy to make salaries for state employees competitive with contiguous states.
“There’s a lot of unrest among public employees out there,” WV AFL-CIO President Josh Sword said. “We have a crisis on our hands within...