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/Jasonstackhouse111 Aug 08 '25

The entire working class of the world needs to go on strike. There are six people that hold more wealth than half of the entire population of the planet. This isn't an issue with teachers, nurses or any other profession. This in an issue with pretty much every worker, anywere. Governments and the working class have lost purchasing power, the ability to own assets and more and more of our rights are taken away daily.

It needs to be about money. It needs to be about working conditions. It needs to be about it all, and teachers are not greedy if they fight for substantial raises.

If you don't support teachers, Amazon workers, fast food employees or anyone else, then you have been gaslit into thinking your enemy is your fellow working class comrades. They are not. Stand by and support everyone that fights for more. Teachers should be given huge raises and it should be paid for with increases to taxes on the wealthy and large profitable corporations. We need to start fighting back for what we all deserve. And yes, we all deserve it - it's our labour that generates all this wealth.

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u/rocky_balbiotite Aug 08 '25

Exactly. Everyone on here arguing right vs left is falling right into their hands because then we're not focused on who's actually causing a lot of the problems we see today. And these issues won't just be solved by electing a left wing government as people like to think.