After nine days of arriving at 7 a.m. to the picket lines, Emily Comer, a Spanish teacher at South Charleston High School, was “mentally and emotionally and physically exhausted.” Word came on a Tuesday morning that a deal between the state and the striking public employees was imminent. Comer—sick in bed with a cold—got dressed and went to the Capitol atrium, thinking, “I cannot not be there.”
West Virginia showed how necessary—and difficult—striking is
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