Over 27,000 K-12 Educators Just Unionized in Virginia
This week, workers in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools voted to unionize, forming a wall-to-wall union of 27,500 teachers, custodians, teaching assistants, bus drivers, and more. The vote has created one of the largest K-12 unions on the East Coast.
Fairfax County Public Schools bus is seen outside of Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School in Herndon, Virginia, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Salwan Georges / the Washington Post via Getty Images)
Education unions just won a massive victory in the fight to bring collective bargaining rights to Virginia’s public sector. Workers at Fairfax County Public Schools voted this week to unionize, creating a wall-to-wall union of 27,500 teachers, custodians, teaching assistants, bus drivers, and more.
The new bargaining unit is one of the largest K-12 unions on the East Coast, according to the National Education Association.
Fairfax County is in Northern Virginia, near Washington, DC, and the Fairfax County school district is by far the largest in the state.
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