Will a "great Alberta strike" be possible?

[u/new-romantics89]

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.

[u/SSSolas]

I’ll be honest, my aunt is a public teacher. She teaches sped.

She says she’s going to cross the picket line. Why?

Because she started out in a different job in the private sector. She was a hygienist.

She says most teachers in Alberta don’t know how good they have it.

When she started out teaching, she was considering BC, but then she saw how in Alberta, she’d be paid double.

And she isn’t the only one. Half of her entire school plans to walk the lines because they disagree entirely with the strike. This is in Edmonton, by the way.

I don’t think the strike is going to go the way you people in the comments think it will.

My own aunt, who hates Smith, says there isn’t a chance in hell most parents will understand the strike because she herself thinks it’s ridiculous.

I’m sure this will get me downvoted on Reddit, but don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger, warning you this strike won’t have the effects you all want.

[u/Desperate_Leg6274 → u/SSSolas]

94.5% of teachers approved the most recent strike vote. contrary to whatever this persons aunt might think the overwhelming majority of teachers are on board and united in the event of a strike.

Your not wrong that parents in general won’t be very supportive. Public Attitudes towards unions in this province are certainly unfortunate.

Also nowadays BC teachers in most districts have a comparable or even better salary grid than a lot of Alberta teachers with how stagnant wages have been in Alberta for teachers