Alberta’s labour movement is flirting with a tactic that its leaders say would be “big and bold and unprecedented,” but they’re still not quite ready to flip the switch.

Las t week, labour leaders promised an “unprecedented response” to the provincial government’s decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to force striking teachers back to work.

Days later, supporters and media congregated at Ironworkers Hall in Edmonton to hear more about what the Alberta Federation of Labour had up its sleeve.

But if one was expecting concrete plans for a provincewide strike, as Gil McGowan, president of the AFL, had intimated was under consideration, the press conference that followed laid out a longer road ahead.

“General strike?” read one of multiple noncommittal signs on stage

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