AUPE, other union leaders meet to talk job action as striking teachers face back to work order

'The only thing government listens to is mass action'

Union leaders from across the province will meet Friday night to discuss how they can show solidarity with Alberta teachers as the province is poised to order them back to work.

On Thursday morning, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said that absent a deal to end a provincewide teachers strike, her government will introduce back-to-work legislation Monday via Bill 2, the Back to School Act.

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The impasse between the province and the Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) was a hot topic of conversation Thursday as the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees opened its annual convention at the Edmonton Expo Centre. While delegates voted against attending Thursday afternoon’s planned teachers’ rally at the legislature, delegat