West Virginia Proves That When Women March, Things HAPPEN
March 8, 2018
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as posted by the channelIn this Majority Report clip, Mike Elk joins the program to discuss the hugely successful teachers strike in West Virginia, and how women play a huge impact in the success of the labor movement.
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---The bottom-up, militant wildcat strike that resulted in the March 6 declaration of an across-the-board raise of 5 percent for all public employees in West Virginia has drawn substantial national attention, but it's been less noticed that the strike of teachers and school service personnel -- who are overwhelmingly women -- took place in the context of one of the most serious crackdowns on women's rights in West Virginia history.
Tuesday's deal, which includes a freeze on health care cost increases, in addition to the pay raise, marked a victory in a crucial battle against public sector austerity, but as a majority-woman workforce, the strikers' lives and livelihoods are still threatened by the local right-wing assault on abortion rights.
In the lead-up to Tuesday's deal, striking teachers filled the Charleston statehouse with songs and costumes; humorous and historical protest signs; and chants urging the state legislature to pass a bill to grant all statewide public-sector workers a raise and fix state employee health insurance. Meanwhile, however, state legislators have been busy passing bills in the state house and senate this session that could functionally amount to a statewide ban on abortion.---
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