Alberta’s teachers are accusing the province of bad faith bargaining over the recent strike.
Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, says they have filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board against the government’s bargaining agent.
Schilling says during the labour standoff, the government made misleading claims of what was eventually promised to address classroom sizes and complexities.
He says the government also made statements attempting to drive a wedge between teachers and the association.
Schilling says the association is also filing 61 grievances, one in every bargaining unit in Alberta.
Premier Danielle Smith’s government passed a bill in late October to use the notwithstanding clause to end the three-week provincewide strike.
(The Can

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