Teachers Leverage #RedForEd Walkouts to Win Bigger Pay Boosts

Teacher strikes across the U.S. have yielded a marked increase in bargained wages since a headline-grabbing 2018 walkout in West Virginia reinvigorated #RedforEd protests in states and major cities across the country, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.

Teachers unions have leveraged the large-scale walkouts, where teachers gather wearing red to decry the state of public education in the U.S., to win greater pay raises for members by bargaining in solidarity with the mass protests, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of wage settlements from 848 contracts signed from 2015 through 2019. The movement has even triggered bigger boosts in teachers’ ...