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Thousands Of Virginia Public School Teachers And Staff Vote To Unionize

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Public school employees in one of the biggest school districts in the U.S. have voted overwhelmingly to form unions, capitalizing on a recent Virginia law that allows for collective bargaining in the public sector.

Leslie Houston, president of the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers, said in a statement that the unions would focus on “securing fair compensation and living wages for all.” Fairfax County Public School buses sit idle at a middle school in Falls Church, Virginia, in July 2020.In 2020, spurred on by pressure from labor groups, Virginia’s Democratic-led assembly passed a bill overturning the decadesold ban on public employee unionism. The legislation was signed into law by then-Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, giving unions hope they could build membership in the right-to-work state.

 

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