The Alberta Teachers’ Association will not decide on how it will react to the province’s back-to-work legislation until it sees the exact wording of it.

Bill 2, the Back to School Act, is expected to be introduced in the legislature on Monday as the government looks to end the provincewide teachers’ strike that began Oct. 6.

Once the ATA sees the actual wording of the act, it’s provincial executive will meet and decide how to respond to the legislation.

ATA president Jason Schilling said that the legislation is “neither necessary nor justified.” He said the executive committee is in regular contact with its lawyers to go over possible options that are available to the union.

Teachers have twice rejected an offer to bump salaries by an average of 12 per cent over four years, and what th

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