Edmonton – approximately 51,000 members of the Alberta Teachers Association are ready to start a strike today.
Labor actions, if it goes forward, will affect more than 700,000 students in 2500 public, individual and francoling schools.
Most school councils, including Edmonton, Kalgary, Fort Makmurrey and Letbridge, sent notifications informing the families that, prohibiting the transaction of the 11th hour, will be suspended from the beginning of Monday.
Both sides were far from each other at the end of last week, but on Friday the trade union said that they resumed “research conversations”.
Teachers rejected the last government’s last proposal at the end of last month, which included an increase in wages by 12 percent over four years, a government promise to hire another 3,000 teachers to solve classes and money to cover the cost of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The President of the Association of Teachers of Alberta Jason Shilling said that last week the hiring indicator in this sentence is a fall in a bucket compared to what it is necessary, noting that the province should hire at least 5,000 instructors in order to comply with the ratio of students and teachers.
This report of the Canadian press was first published on October 6, 2025
