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The Alberta Teachers' Alliance was established during the First World War. Faced with constant opposition from government and employees, teachers had no basic contractual rights, no guarantee of a minimum wage and no mechanism for appealing dismissals. In addition, they were generally treated poorly in the communities they served.
That same season, employees of the Alberta Liquor Control Board went on strike for 10 days, winning substantial wage increases. This unrest culminated on October 1, 1974, when 12,500 direct government employees walked off the job for two days because the government had arbitrarily imposed a pay increase six days before bargaining was due to ...
Among employees with paid leave, lower-wage employees are less likely to have access to a PTO bank than a traditional paid vacation system. 51% of employees in the lowest average wage quartile have access to any vacation time, and only 9 percent of the lowest wage employees have access to a PTO bank. 89% of employees in the highest wage ...
The controller’s office has yet to publish a letter with instructions for how to implement raises for the bargaining units represented by the largest union in state civil service, SEIU Local ...
The Alberta Reference was explicitly overturned in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan, with a majority of the SCC recognizing a constitutionally-protected right to strike under section 2(d) of the Charter. The majority decision in that case specifically referred to Chief Justice Dickson's dissenting reasons in the Alberta ...
The state’s labor commission could investigate and fine employers for interrupting employees' personal time. Management expert professor Amira Barger believes the bill addresses workplace equity ...
Average annual teacher salaries ranged from $41,000 to more than $150,000. See teacher pay for each California school district. Most teachers got a modest pay raise
In 2018, West Virginia teachers went on strike to demand higher wages and affordable health coverage. Without the sustained sanction of union leadership, this strike became a wildcat strike. [12] In 2018, similar wildcat strikes by teachers demanding better pay and school funding also occurred in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, and Arizona. [13]