West Virginia
West Virginia: 300 teachers call in sick in pay dispute
As strikes are illegal, hundreds of school workers in Monongalia County went on sick-out on Tuesday giving school children the day off as all state schools were forced to shut.
The evening previously about 30 teachers in Brooke County demonstrated at the county schools office. These teachers received praise in the press, as opposed to the vitriol dished out on the Monongalia strikers.
Of the sick out, Ry Rivard wrote on da.wvu.edu that county superintendent Frank Devonoit said was not clear how many were protesting and how many were actually sick.
1877: The Great Railroad Strike
Howard Zinn's short history of the biggest industrial dispute in American history by that time, shutting down half the country's rail network.
