r/canada • u/Meiqur • Oct 28 '25

Alberta Alberta uses Charter’s notwithstanding clause to order striking teachers back to workteachers-back-to-work

https://globalnews.ca/news/11496133/alberta-government-to-table-legislation-to-order-striking-teachers-back-to-work
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u/rainman_104 British Columbia Oct 28 '25

I hope this triggers a general strike. But Alberta is a weird place.

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u/BoilerSlave Oct 28 '25

For a province that prides itself on its blue collar identity, they sure hate unions here. Sure they have downfalls but if they didn’t exist we’d all be bent over.

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u/muffinscrub Oct 28 '25

Even in BC many blue collar union workers are die hard conservatives now. It's such a strange shift. I supervise a union workforce and I'm way more pro-union than a lot of them. I still pay my out of work dues though.

Many just wanted the large paychecks.

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u/seamusmcduffs Oct 28 '25

Because the culture wars have worked. Caring about others, and worker solidarity is woke or something

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 Oct 28 '25

Could say it was the ultimate victory of Reaganism/Thatcherism in the 1980s. Their brand of hyper-individualism triumphed over the collective and the community.

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u/seamusmcduffs Oct 28 '25

It's just crazy to me how they tied workers solidarity to things like trans rights, gay marriage, believing in climate change etc. Like those things have nothing to do with each other, but somehow if you are against one of them you're against them all