NATION IN BRIEF : WEST VIRGINIA : Teachers Upset Over Pay Call First Strike
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Teachers carried picket signs in nine West Virginia counties in a dispute with the governor and Legislature over a pay raise. Teachers in at least 13 more counties plan to join the state’s first school strike today, a West Virginia Education Assn. spokeswoman said. The union, which represents 16,000 of the state’s 22,000 public school teachers, says average teacher pay in the state was $21,904, 49th in the nation, before a 5% raise last month.
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