October 6, 2025
RED FM News Desk
Around 51,000 members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) are preparing to launch a province-wide strike today, a move that could disrupt learning for more than 700,000 students across 2,500 public, separate, and francophone schools.
School boards in Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray, and Lethbridge have notified families that, unless a last-minute deal is reached, classes will be paused starting Monday.
Although the two sides remained far apart in negotiations late last week, the ATA said on Friday that “exploratory conversations” with the government had resumed.
Teachers rejected the province’s latest offer late last month, which proposed a 12 per cent wage increase over four years, funding to hire 3,000 additional teachers to ease class sizes, and support for COVID-19 vaccine costs.
ATA President Jason Schilling criticized the proposal, saying the hiring commitment falls short of what’s needed. He argued that Alberta requires at least 5,000 new teachers to bring student-teacher ratios in line with national standards.
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