Stephen Smith’s movement-based campaign has released the first of 32 bottom-up proposals to change the state. It includes a wealth tax.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Through Snow and Rain, Tree Sitters Continue to Fight a Gas Pipeline
The protests, intended to slow down the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia, are now in their second year.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The New Uprising on a Country Road
Stephen Smith has brought an organizer’s mentality to his campaign for governor of West Virginia. He’s not just trying to win an election, but build a movement.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Can the Courts Strike Down Right-to-Work?
After decades of anti-worker rulings, unions are now challenging Taft-Hartley on free speech and other constitutional grounds.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
If He Can’t Build His Wall, Trump Won’t Build Anything Else
A West Virginia rally and an upcoming New Jersey event demonstrate again how Trump bamboozled America on one of his signature promises.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
West Virginia Teachers Won Their Strike. Now, They’re Rebuilding the Local Economy.
How the American Federation of Teachers has taken the lead in reinvigorating the poorest county in the state
Posted inTAP
The stunning success of the West Virginia teachers’ strike
—winning a 5 percent raise not only for themselves but for all the state’s public employees—suggests that in labor relations, as in everything else, the nation is moving, with accelerating speed, in opposite directions. As the five Republican justices on the Supreme Court are poised to weaken public-sector unions with their forthcoming decision in the […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
West Virginia Teachers and the Working-Class Revolt
For years, states have cut school funding while reducing taxes on corporations. But teachers and workers are fighting back.
Posted inEducation in America
West Virginia Teachers Win—Will the Legislature Try to Undercut Their Victory?
West Virginia’s teachers won a 5 percent pay raise for all state employees. But it was the legislature’s corporate tax cuts that underfunded the teachers in the first place—and it may slash public services to pay for the raise.
Posted inEducation in America
West Virginia Communities Unite Behind Historic Teacher Strike
It’s day four of the West Virginia teachers’ strike, in which nearly 20,000 teachers across the state are demanding higher pay and better health insurance. On Tuesday, union leaders finally secured a meeting with Republican Governor Jim Justice—meaning the strike could end today if demands are met. The teachers, coordinated by the American Federation of […]