Alberta teachers cast strike vote ballots
Posted Jun 5, 2025 8:16 am.
Starting Thursday, Alberta teachers will cast their votes on whether or not to proceed with a strike.
Voting will continue until June 8.
If the strike vote is approved, it will be good for 120 days.
A 72-hour notice would have to be issued before educators could hit the picket lines.
This comes after teachers voted 99 per cent in favour of job action last week.
The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) says crowded classrooms and a lack of wage increases are the main points of contention among teachers in the province.
Negotiations between the representatives of teachers and the province went to mediation in January, and the mediator released a set of recommended terms for a settlement that needed to be approved by both sides.
Earlier this month, 62 per cent of teachers voted ‘no’ to a mediator’s recommendation for a new collective agreement.
The province said at the time the offer was endorsed by ATA leadership and they were waiting to hear why the majority of those who voted rejected the deal.
“The rejected deal included general wage increase adjustments already accepted by other unions and their members, and more than $400 million in classroom improvements which would have started this fall,” reads a statement from the Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance.
The province has said it is ready to return to the bargaining table at any time.
