Alberta teachers are back in class, but their union’s lawyers were in court Thursday, issuing two separate legal challenges to the province’s back-to-work order.

The first order of business is the call for an injunction that would put a temporary hold on Bill 2, which forced teachers back to work Oct. 29, unilaterally ending a three-week province-wide strike. If the request for the injunction succeeds, the teachers would be back in a legal strike position. ATA president Jason Schilling said Thursday the union would then ponder its next steps if it were given back its right to walk out.

The second order of business for the ATA’s lawyers was to take the first step in a constitutional challenge against the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause, which was required to pass Bill 2, the

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