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Alberta Teachers Set Oct. 6 Strike After 89.5% Reject Deal

The province unveiled weekly parent payments alongside a curriculum toolkit as contingency measures.

With contact talks between teachers and the province at an apparent stalemate, it appears Alberta's 51,000 teachers are poised to walk off the job.
HSAA members rally in front of the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre ion Thursday.
Students walk out of school to join a protest in support of pay for teachers and funding for schools at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton on Monday, September 22, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
A grim-faced Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, flanked by her grim-faced ministers of finance and education, Nate Horner and Demetrios Nicolaides, explains her government’s scheme to pay parents to teach their kids at home during a teachers’ strike.

Overview

  • Union leaders set a provincewide walkout for Oct. 6 and said no bargaining sessions are scheduled before the deadline.
  • Teachers rejected the tentative agreement by 89.5% on a 94% turnout, citing unresolved class sizes, classroom complexity and pay erosion.
  • The government’s latest offer included a 12% wage increase over four years and a pledge to hire 3,000 teachers over three years plus additional educational assistants.
  • Officials announced $150 per week per child aged 12 and under and a week‑by‑week curriculum toolkit for at‑home learning, with first payments targeted for Oct. 31 if the strike proceeds.
  • About 51,000 teachers could leave classrooms, affecting more than 700,000 K‑12 students across roughly 2,500 schools, and the union says it will return to talks if the province does.