As I wrote last week, I have tremendous respect for Alberta’s teachers as professionals. Everything they have to put up with in their classrooms makes being an educator so much more challenging than it used to be – the students with multiple levels of education and multiple languages, some students’ tragic homelives and social needs, special needs students requiring disproportionate attention, the potential for violence, even addiction issues.

But as unionists, I am less impressed with them.

Over the weekend, the Alberta Teachers’ Association issued “Talking Points” to its members about the union’s ongoing negotiations with the province and the Teachers’ Employer Bargaining Association (TEBA), a body made up of provincial appointees and members selected by school boards.

The province be

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