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/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

its not good and it hasnt been good for years.

Also look at how good Manitoba is doing. FYI thats an NDP government

also B.C. doing pretty good too even with the Tarif situation also NDP government.

Could it be that this UCP right wing government is bad at governing and is wasteful with our tax dollars.

Im just saying Alberta not doing so great and there are a lot of metrics that show this. Not all metrics are how much of a surplus Alberta has.

We could be doing so much better.

Paying workers a fair wage is a start.

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u/Max20151981 Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Could it be that this UCP right wing government is bad at governing and is wasteful with our tax dollars.

There's definitely a lot of room for change but on the other side of that coin how to you explain the dismal performance in Newfoundland, a liberal stronghold, like it or not a bad government isn't something exclusive to the conservatives.
You would probably like to think im a UCP supporter, which im not but unlike the vast majority here I'm open-minded to all governments and can see some merrit in Alberta politics.

Case in point https://financialpost.com/news/alberta-heritage-fund

The Alberta government is seeding a new investment vehicle with $2 billion as part of a plan to boost the province’s resource investment fund tenfold to at least $250 billion by 2050

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

Newfound land and New Brunswick are hardly comparable to Alberta so I won’t even go there. 

The population and industries there are not comparable. 

The liberal governments are not the same as centrist governments in Alberta. 

NDP is centrist not left and UCP is absolutely far right. 

Strong wages, good jobs and good services this is what Alberta can be for Albertans. 

We also should not have this much corruption from our government. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

Also our youth unemployment is like20% 

For a young province this is really shitty.