CUPE Local 2157

10/29/2025

Alberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.

10/27/2025

Solidarity with Teachers!

Teachers: Whatever happens today, we're with you.

10/23/2025

Rumours are flying that the UCP government is considering forcing teachers back to work with legislation. They might even use the notwithstanding clause to do so.

The courts have previously ruled that governments cannot force contracts on unions; they have to bargain and reach voluntary agreements. However, the notwithstanding clause is a part of the Canadian Constitution that allows the government to set aside the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This would be an unprecedented attack on public sector bargaining rights. If the UCP gets away with using the notwithstanding clause instead of bargaining with teachers, no government will ever agree to bargain with a public sector union again.

There are alternatives that the UCP could have used. They could have used the Disputes Inquiry Board mechanism in the Labour Code, which would have forced the parties into mediation.

But most of all, the UCP could have, and should have, engaged in bargaining with the teachers in a meaningful way. The UCP could have addressed the catastrophic funding crisis in our schools and funded education.

If the UCP uses the notwithstanding clause against teachers, they will be bringing CUPE and other working people into this dispute. They will be telling us that working people do not deserve the right to bargain their own wages and working conditions.
They will be telling working people that we don’t matter. We can never accept that from any government.

If you are in Edmonton, there will be a rally tomorrow at the Legislature at 2:00 pm. Please join and bring friends if you can.

We have to stand together.

09/27/2025

📣 CUPW Local 73 are on the line again, and they need our support!

Support our CUPW workers by standing on the line!
The picket line in Fort McMurray is at the Morrison Centre downtown, and an information picket will be at Purolator.

Let’s show up, show our support and stand for union solidarity!!!

CUPW STTP

08/15/2025

🔈 FYI: The Alberta Next Panel is coming to Fort McMurray August 26
The ideas and concerns shared by Albertans in these sessions will directly inform real decisions and questions of importance that the public will vote on in 2026.

Provincial dollars are used to fund initiatives like these townhalls - so make sure you have your voice heard on the establishment of the Alberta Pension Plan, Constitutional Changes, Provincial Police Force, Tax Collection and other policy ideas and changes proposed by Danielle Smith and the UCP.

Register to attend, learn more about the panels and what they mean for the future of our province here:

Albertans need a direct say in how to strengthen our sovereignty within a united Canada. Taking action will protect our province from Ottawa's continued attacks on Alberta’s economic wellbeing.