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Teachers strike outside of the capitol building in Charleston, West Virginia
Tory leader’s video was ‘an insult to the innocent civil rights protesters who were murdered in Derry in January 1972,’ says SDLP MP Colum Eastwood
ROUGHLY 30,000 teachers and school support workers in West Virginia walked out today for the eighth day of strike action in their battle for decent pay.
The teachers’ strike began on February 22 over their pay and benefits, demanding that state legislators vote to end a four-year pay freeze.
West Virginia teachers are almost the lowest-paid in the United States.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
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As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE