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EDUCATION

Alberta teachers voting on strike, results by next week

Jun 6, 2025 | 3:02 PM

Alberta’s elementary and high school teachers are taking a strike vote that runs until Sunday.

It follows up the strike authorization vote when 38,000 teachers voted 99 per cent vote in favour in May.

Heather Grant, Alberta Teachers’ Association communications officer, said if the strike vote passes, union leadership would work out the details of any possible strike action.

“Teachers would then have 120 days to initiate job action and must give 72 hours notice beforehand,” Grant said.

“At any point during this process, an acceptable resolution may be reached with the bargaining association of the province’s school boards.”

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Results are anticipated by Wednesday.

The ATA confirms this after multiple school divisions sent messages to parents notifying them of the vote.

In a June 4 email to parents from Red Deer Public Schools, the division notes it is not the employer, nor involved in this bargaining.

That would be the provincial government, and specifically the Teacher Employer Bargaining Association.

At 120 days of validity, a vote in favour of striking could result in a strike before the end of the school year, or one that takes place when school starts up again in September.