West Virginia Teachers Strike, One of the Most Important Labor Victories in Decades

Interview with Eric Blanc, a contributor to Jacobin Magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

Eric Blanc discusses the union’s success in winning a five percent pay raise for all state workers, a temporary freeze on health insurance premiums, and the significance of their wildcat strike for the broader U.S. labor movement. Eric is also a doctoral student in the sociology department at New York University who covered the nine day West Virginia teachers strike.

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