Union leaders, workers vow to take back statehouse at large rally
Source: Metro News
By Jeff Jenkins
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Thousands of union workers from across West Virginia descended on the state capitol Saturday to begin what they say is a fight to take back the legislature for the people of the state.
The “Mountaineer Workers Rising” rally drew a crowd estimated at nearly 7,000 including iron workers, general laborers, school teachers and coal miners. They yelled and screamed with union leaders against things like the effort to change the prevailing wage, right-to-work, coal mine safety and public charter schools.
“They say ‘we need to modify the system,'” Teamsters Union General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall said about prevailing wage. “I say, they want to cut your wages because that’s what they’re going to do.”
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten criticized lawmakers for what she described as their effort to take away funding from public schools by setting up charter schools when they should be giving more funding to public schools and spending money on fixing things like the state’s transportation system.
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