CUPE Education Workers - Fort McMurray Strike Updates

10/27/2025

The UCP government will table legislation today to force teachers back to work. They want to impose a contract identical to the offer teachers have rejected twice – in overwhelming numbers.

In doing so, the UCP is taking the unprecedented step of using the ‘notwithstanding clause’ to override Albertans’ Charter rights to bargain our wages and working conditions.

The UCP is going so far as to change the rules of the Alberta Legislature to ram this bill through tonight, just hours after the public gets a look at it. If Danielle Smith gets her way, we will have lost our rights by breakfast tomorrow.

THIS IS NO LONGER JUST ABOUT TEACHERS – if the UCP gets away with using the notwithstanding clause, they will use it again the next time any group of public sector workers chooses to strike.

If a group of CUPE health care workers, municipal workers, social service workers even threaten to take job action – governments will impose the notwithstanding clause.

We are in close contact with teachers and with other unions about our next steps. CUPE will support the teachers in any action they choose to take. We will always stand up for working people and our rights to free and fair collective bargaining.

03/16/2025

03/07/2025

109 likes, 5 comments. “Our Cupe members from. Fort McMurray have been on a full out strike since January These wonderful men and women, want to be back to work. They have not had any real wage increases in 10 years. And the cost of living has skyrocketed. No one in the education field does this j...

03/05/2025

02/02/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/195suonVLU/?

🚨Our locations have been receiving multiple emails and reviews recently regarding undermining EA’s in Alberta. We had a school reach out to us to provide insulin injections and medications to medically fragile children. This is the only service we have provided and were not under the impression this would have any effect on your ongoing negotiations.

Our priorities will always be what is best for our patients, we were under the impression these injections were required in order for this individual to be healthy and safe while in the school.

We have since suspended these services and will not work with any other schools or school boards until your negotiations have been settled.

We sincerely apologize to our hard working Educational Assistants and to Edmonton and District Labour Council for any disrespect or harm we have caused your organization.

02/01/2025

https://edmontonlabour.ca/campaigns/defendeducationworkers/

Unfortunately, we have received word that Alberta is no longer rat free. Nurse Next Door is not only scabbing for striking education support workers, but actively soliciting schools to undermine these brave workers and use their services! Stand with these workers who are walking the line against the...

01/28/2025

An open letter to MLA Brian Jean from CUPE Locals 2545 and 2559 Presidents.

01/28/2025

https://chng.it/WYjF4wp5qk

Sign the petition. (This applies to both school boards in Fort McMurray, as well as Edmonton Public and Sturgeon School Division - each has its own ministerial order)

01/28/2025

Don’t cross picket lines.
Don’t do the work of striking people!
Don’t be a scab.
Don’t work for a company that provides scab labour!!
Don't use a company that provides scab labour!!

Email BeeClean and tell them to stop!
https://woodbuffalolabour.ca/campaigns/support-workers-deserve-better/

Email MegaCom and tell them to stop! (They've taken down their page MegaComCanada)
[email protected]

01/26/2025

We already knew that there was heavy government involvement; and now the Premier has admitted it.