Alejandra Pulido-Guzman

Lethbridge Herald

After two weeks of students being out of their classrooms, the Government of Alberta asked teachers go back to work next Monday. The Alberta Teachers’ Association response was a resounding no.

ATA president Jason Schilling said the request came in a letter Thursday and the proposal left him and the union feeling “insulted.”

He said he would expect the mediation process to be biased, since the province said it’s not willing to discuss caps on classroom sizes.

“This limitation undermines any attempt at resolution,” Schilling said Friday.

The letter said that the Teachers’ Employer Bargaining Association can’t provide a counterproposal when the parties are extremely far apart, and the Association has indicated that it is unlikely a counterpropos

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