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Moe Backs Alberta Using Notwithstanding Clause to End Teacher Strike
The Back to School Act blocks bargaining and striking until 2028, affecting 51,000 teachers, while critics warn the law undermines labour rights and faces legal challenges.
- Early Tuesday, the Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause to end a three-week teachers' strike, rushing Bill 2, the Back to School Act, through the legislature to impose a contract and force 51,000 teachers back to work.
- The government argued it needed to act to prevent potential strikes at 61 individual school boards and ensure students could return to classrooms, while labour rights critics warned of precedent.
- The imposed contract provides three per cent annual raises and hires 3,000 teachers plus 1,500 educational assistants, while Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides pledged $100 million per year despite overcrowded classrooms remaining unresolved.
- The Alberta Teachers' Association vowed legal action and the Alberta Federation of Labour signalled a possible general strike, while Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association condemned the decision.
- As a precedent, Alberta's move marks the first use of the notwithstanding clause to end a labour dispute, requiring renewal every five years, while Premier Danielle Smith's government sets a pattern affecting future labour-government relations.
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Saskatchewan's Moe backs Alberta using notwithstanding clause to end teacher strike
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Alberta uses notwithstanding clause to end teachers' strike
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