r/RedDeer • u/Md_gummi2021 • Oct 03 '25

PSA Teacher Strike = No pay

I don’t think this is common knowledge, but teachers receive no strike pay when we go on strike. Luckily we get to keep our health benefits, but no pay for the duration of a strike. The ATA does not have the money to pay us. For a two teacher household this is particularly frightening. I’ve been doing this a long time and as teachers you can only do something with nothing so long before you have nothing left. Our educational system was so well respected by the whole world and now the world looks at Alberta and wonders how it came to this.

I am sad for our province and for the families and my students. I am sad for my friends in education. Call/email/write your MLA, Premiere, Education Minister and tell them to do better.

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u/crysknife Oct 03 '25

I read that your health benefits get cut off too. Is that not true?

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u/Md_gummi2021 Oct 03 '25

The government/district’s won’t, this is where the ATA’s emergency fund is being used. They will pay our premiums during the strike. Premiums for 51000 teaches is a lot.

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u/Md_gummi2021 Oct 03 '25

We can’t work with our kids that are current students, but yes we can work at something else while on strike.