{"id":134297,"date":"2025-09-10T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:55:07","slug":"alberta-teachers-strike-notice-to-take-effect-oct-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134297\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta teachers strike notice to take effect Oct. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">More than 51,000 teachers in Alberta will strike starting Oct. 6 if an agreement is not reached before then. It comes after months of stalled negotiations with the province, said Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers&#8217; Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Students are being shortchanged and our teachers are being pushed to the brink. Without bold, immediate and sustained intervention from the government, the situation will deteriorate further,&#8221; Schilling said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The time of half measures and political deflection is over. Our kids deserve better and so do the people who teach them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At an unrelated news conference, Premier Danielle Smith told reporters that she was disappointed to hear that teachers are planning to strike, as she thought they were making progress.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She said the government has the ability to give a 12 per cent pay raise over the course of four years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 51,000 teachers in Alberta will strike starting Oct. 6 if an agreement is not reached before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-134297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}