Teachers cannot really talk about being on strike on social media given their union and professional guidelines, but as a retired Alberta teacher, I can.

I remember being on strike in Alberta (AI only researches the history of Alberta teachers’ strikes superficially, but my memory is reliable). The most notable strikes happened in my first year of teaching in 1988, and then again in 2002. There were other work-to-rule job actions along the way.

What I remember most is that none of us wanted to strike because it meant losing pay and falling behind in our classroom responsibilities with our students, but we did it because life in schools had become unmanageable.

Teachers are logical people, and we often work for free because we love our students. Therefore, when we actually strike, things

See Full Page