ATA Strike Vote
Over the past weekend, the Alberta Teachers’ Association held a strike authorization vote. This was not a vote to go on strike, but rather to endorse a formal strike vote application. As of yesterday, the ATA has filed an application with the Alberta Labour Relations Board for a supervised strike vote to take place from June 5-8.
Should this vote be successful, it will be valid for 120 days. The ATA would need to provide 72 hour notice for any strike to take place. This means that regardless of the outcome of this vote, teachers will remain on the job until at least June 11.
WRSD will be receiving guidance from the provincial level in the case of any job action. We understand that there are many questions regarding graduations, diploma exams, provincial achievement tests, year end field trips, etc. There are too many possible situations to provide answers at this time but we will continue to communicate with WRSD families should there be significant updates to the situation.
