The echoes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the nation’s largest armed labor uprising, still reverberate throughout West Virginia’s rolling hills—and its classrooms. Starting on February 25, all of the state’s public schools closed for nearly two weeks, as teachers statewide joined picket lines. The protest was the culmination of years-long objections to low pay; […]

Source: The Unions Strike Back: Janus, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and the Future of Organized Labor – Brown Political Review