Wednesday, January 26, 2011

ATA and Alberta Ed Consider Changes to Collective Bargaining

Our teachers are presently working under a collective agreement that is scheduled to end after the 2010/2011 school year. After that, bargaining will begin anew in all jurisdictions across the province.

In order to reduce the possible hurdles that an uncertain economy, cutbacks, and dynamic demographic will all present to amicable collective bargaining, Alberta Education and the ATA are considering large scale changes to the process. This link will give you some insight into the ATA's reasoning, and this link leads to some proposals from Alberta Education.

The impetus for all of this is the desire to avoid the disastrous turn of events in 2002 that led to a strike position and education disruptions province wide as 14000 education workers went on strike.

Do you think that teachers should have a right to strike? Or should they be considered an 'essential service' like the police or firefighters?

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