{"id":514653,"date":"2026-03-04T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:40:36","slug":"injunction-hearing-that-could-renew-alberta-teachers-ability-to-strike-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514653\/","title":{"rendered":"Injunction hearing that could renew Alberta teachers ability to strike underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta\u2019s teachers union was back in court today seeking an injunction against the province\u2019s back-to-work legislation last fall.<\/p>\n<p>If granted, the injunction would allow teachers to once again take job action, but\u00a0Alberta\u00a0Teachers\u2019 Association president Jason Schilling says that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s a step educators would take.<\/p>\n<p>Schilling says the injunction would put teachers in the same position as they were before the\u00a0Alberta\u00a0government shut down the strike and imposed a contract by using the Charter\u2019s notwithstanding clause.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is expected to wrap up Thursday, but the union says it doesn\u2019t expect the judge to issue a decision until later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the union are arguing that the government didn\u2019t invoke the notwithstanding clause properly, especially since it was used retroactively to impose the four-year contract that teachers had already rejected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government has said it had no choice but to end the strike as it was affecting students\u2019 and parents\u2019 well-being.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta\u2019s teachers union was back in court today seeking an injunction against the province\u2019s back-to-work legislation last fall.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-514653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514653","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=514653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}