More than 740,000 students head back to class in Alberta after teacher strike ends

Alberta Teamsters Blast Danielle Smith After Attack on Teachers' Rights

CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alberta Teamsters are standing firmly with education workers in defence of their right to free and fair collective bargaining. Union leaders today condemned Premier Danielle Smith’s decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work.

Alberta students back in class after teachers strike, threatened mass walkout fizzles

EDMONTON — Alberta’s provincewide teachers strike formally ended Wednesday as 740,000 students went back to classes and a threat from union leaders to

Alberta teachers and students are back in school but questions loom over what the year might look like

Students were back in classrooms on Wednesday after the provincial government invoked the notwithstanding clause to end the weeks-long teachers' strike.

STF calls on Alberta to rescind back-to-work bill for teachers

The union representing Saskatchewan teachers says the Alberta government's move to force striking teachers back to work is an "extraordinary overreach."

Alberta teachers and students return to school after back-to-work order

Teachers were forced to accept the collective agreement that almost all of them had rejected more than a month earlier