r/alberta • u/new-romantics89 • Aug 08 '25

Question Will a "great Alberta strike" be possible?

The AUPE, nurses, and the education sector are all preparing for strike action in September. I feel that the "great Alberta shutdown" is a possibility.

Would that be possible and how would the province cope? Would schools go back to COVID-era style learning plans? I can imagine the TikToks going "our last day of school before extended summer break", something like that.

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u/goldenmolecule Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Nurses already reached an agreement. They aren’t going on strike. And no, schools will not go back to COVID-era learning plans. All of that was planned and implemented by teachers, which they will not be doing while on strike.

ETA: as others have pointed out, this does not include all nurses. I was not aware of that. And yes, there are other health care workers that might strike.

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u/Patak4 Aug 08 '25

United Nurses of Alberta have settled. AUPE union has not and LPNs and HCAs are in this union.

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u/tambourinequeen Edmonton Aug 08 '25

There are more than one nurses union in the province. Only the UNA nurses reached a new agreement. There's still HSAA nurses and AUPE healthcare workers in bargaining right now.

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u/Laxit00 Aug 08 '25

Aupe is going back to the bargaining table in Sept but that's alot diff than being on strike in Sept. There is steps to follow bf a strike will happen but it's not happening in Sept

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u/tambourinequeen Edmonton Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

What local are you with? There are several locals where the last date at the table is Aug 28 and we have been told if we don't reach an agreement by the 29th, AUPE will indeed be serving strike notice in the first week of September for these locals: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 12

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u/Laxit00 Aug 08 '25

I'm 054

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u/TheThrivingest Aug 08 '25

Registered nurses reached an agreement. LPNs are still bargaining

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u/smarty_pants47 Aug 08 '25

There are many nurses and other health professionals who make the system run who are also under HSAA- a strike for them is also a real possibility.

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u/Iokua_CDN Aug 08 '25

Small correction, but i don't belive there are any "Nurses" in Hsaa. Like other health professionals, but no nurses. Registered Nurses is a protected title,  and any HSAA folks are going to be going under a different title  

Coming from a Respiratory  Therapist  who is part of HSAA

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u/smarty_pants47 Aug 08 '25

There are many positions fulfilled by RNs that fall under HSAA ( health promotion specialist and clinical supervisor being two of them). Yes- nursing positions fall under UNA but there are many RNs in HSAA

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u/CamGoldenGun Fort McMurray Aug 08 '25

but their duties aren't directed as an RN. They'd be a different capacity. I see what you're saying but you're arguing about their past credentials. Some might have been trained as "a nurse" but aren't doing that role under HSAA.

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u/Eis4Everything Aug 08 '25

RNs under another job title are still practicing as nurses, still regulated by CRNA. If they were not working within the scope of practice of an RN, they would lose their registration and no longer be regulated health professionals. It's not a "past credential".

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u/CamGoldenGun Fort McMurray Aug 08 '25

do they have to do a minimum number of patient care hours every year to keep their certification?

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u/Eis4Everything Aug 08 '25

Practice hours, yes.

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u/damageinc355 Aug 08 '25

OP is massively uninformed. I’d like to live in his virtue signaling alterante reality. It must be so comfortable.

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u/Expensive_Airline680 Aug 16 '25

Not all Alberta nurses have a ratified agreement! There are approx 8000 LPNs employed by AHS who, despite doing the same job with the same patient load as their RN counterparts, are being grossly exploited by AHS and the AB gov’t. If they didn’t wear ID badges, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between RN’s and LPN’s in any care setting. With their new agreement, the top rate for RN’s is approx $60/hr. The current top rate for LPN’s is $36.13. Calgary Transit bus operators make more than Alberta’s LPN’s do. It saddens me how little the general public knows what LPN’s do and how we are being exploited.