So this was what they call a wildcat strike, right?

It was originally a team cat strike and it kind of went feral.

Sure.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias, joined today as usual by Darrelland and also by Alexia

Fernandez Campbell.

We are going to talk, I don't know, there's like really big news about North Korea happening,

but we don't know anything about that.

So we instead want to talk about arguably the least important political news story of

the day, beta or works first name, but I happen to think it's fascinating.

So that's going to come later in the show.

But first we wanted to talk about the teacher strike in West Virginia and that's been an

interesting story that when did it's way into the national media, only a little bit

slowly.

Alex, can you just like fill listeners in if they haven't been paying attention like what

what happened?

Yeah.

So a lot of people weren't really paying attention at first.

There were teachers in West Virginia had shut down the schools from a one day or two and

then it just started continuing day after day and suddenly everyone was paying attention.

And not only that, the teachers wanted a 5% raise and that's kind of unheard of right

now anywhere, even in California, hasn't given teachers that big of a raise, but they hadn't

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