The Essence of Trickle Down

[Montmorency]

Indefinite wildcat strike in West Virginia.

ALL public school teachers have walked out, rejecting negotiated concessions to the union.

It continues.

http://wvde.state.wv.us/closings/at-a-glance

[Seamus Fermanagh]

It continues.

http://wvde.state.wv.us/closings/at-a-glance

I chuckled as this is a website usually used for seeing if your county is taking the day off for snow.

[HopAlongBunny]

Teachers might be getting ready for the long haul after Virginia Senate bounces pay raise:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-w...-idUSKCN1GE0AH

It seems there is "no money" for raises, shouldn't we be talking about tax-cuts?":

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/h...b0a0ba4ad3513b

It's just enough to make one lose faith in the "lower taxes and they will come" religion of the Right

[Montmorency]

More interesting aspect to me is that in an age of withered "Big" Labor and co-opted union bureaucracy it's a rare example (since the 1970s) of small-d democratic mass action... in action, folks.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

More interesting aspect to me is that in an age of withered "Big" Labor and co-opted union bureaucracy it's a rare example (since the 1970s) of small-d democratic mass action... in action, folks.

True enough. Most locals won't take on the international like that.