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‘Love my job’: Alberta teachers look to make ends meet in provincewide strike
The strike involves 51,000 teachers rejecting a 12% wage increase offer and demands more hiring to reduce overcrowding, affecting over 740,000 students across Alberta.
- On Oct. 6, ATA members walked off the job, stopping in-class instruction for more than 740,000 students across 2,500 public, separate and francophone schools.
- Alberta teachers rejected the government's package that included a 12 per cent wage increase over four years and 3,000 new teaching positions, with an 89.5% rejection vote by ATA members.
- The province offers $150 per week per child, with applications opening Oct. 14 and first payments starting Oct. 31 retroactive to Oct. 6, while YMCA centers in Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Red Deer, and Grande Prairie expect over 2,600 children daily.
- Teachers described tightening budgets and possible side work, with Adrien Dominguez saying, `I know co-workers who lost dual incomes because they're both teachers` and `Depending how long it goes` he `may to going back to doing photography, marketing and university tutoring`.
- While teachers strike, many support staff continue working but unions like Unifor and CUPE Local 40 refuse teaching duties, and Jason Schilling says 5,000 new teachers are needed.
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'Love my job': Alberta teachers look to make ends meet in provincewide strike
EDMONTON — If Adrien Dominguez were teaching this week, he’d be introducing physics to a class of 38 high school students. Instead, the math and science teacher from High Prairie, northwest of Edmonton, is at home trying to figure out how he’ll keep paying his bills. A provincewide strike that started Monday with Dominguez and […]
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