Majority of Alberta teachers vote to strike

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 10, 2025 3:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Alberta teachers person voted overwhelmingly successful favour of going connected strike. 

Of the astir 39,000 teachers who formed their ballot successful a four-day ballot that ended Sunday, 94.5 per cent are acceptable to locomotion disconnected the job.

The results were posted online Tuesday by the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA), which represents much than 44,000 teachers successful the province. 

"Alberta teachers are sending an unmistakable message," said ATA president Jason Schilling connected Tuesday. "We are united, we are determined, and we volition nary longer clasp up a crumbling nationalist acquisition strategy that this authorities fails to money properly."

Teachers person 120 days to initiate a onslaught if an statement isn't reached with the province.

Issues see wages, schoolroom size and enactment for students with analyzable needs, Schilling said. 

"Teachers privation each pupil to thrive, but successful overcrowded, undersupported classrooms, students are not getting the one-on-one attraction they deserve. And my colleagues bash not person the tools they request to bash their jobs properly, and they're burning retired nether the value of these intolerable expectations," Schilling said.

Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner said successful a connection that the state has "tremendous respect for teachers, principals, strategy leaders and schoolhouse divisions for their ongoing hard enactment inspiring and guiding students."

He said the mediator's proposal that was rejected by teachers included a wide wage summation of 12 per cent over 4 years and a grid harmonization that would increase wages further.

"The proposal besides included a authorities committedness of much than $400 cardinal successful schoolroom improvements which would person started this fall," the connection said. 

The ATA and the Teachers' Employer Bargaining Association person dates acceptable passim the summertime to proceed mediation, helium said.