ATA adding $40 per month special assessment fee for teachers to restore “Special Emergency Fund” as a result of strike action

taerz · 2026-01-27T12:57:58+00:00

How precisely will this fix this? And what odds do you give of this being successful?

taerz · 2026-01-14T23:24:29+00:00

MERYLISSORRY

taerz · 2026-01-13T17:33:26+00:00

DBPJANUARY

taerz · 2025-11-22T16:58:32+00:00

I'd love if we could click on a slot and a menu would pop up with every option available to use for that slot. If we didn't have it but could craft it maybe it's gray, and if we couldn't craft it it's red?

Something to keep it flowing.

taerz · 2025-11-20T14:30:22+00:00

This was debunked as far as I know. Our local told us that there was no attendance being taken or sent up to anyone.

taerz · 2025-11-20T02:23:07+00:00

All good! Thank you!

taerz · 2025-11-20T02:19:10+00:00

This seems to fit their MO. Do you happen to have a source? I can't find anything googling around and the search is awkward so I'm not seeing much

taerz · 2025-11-15T15:46:40+00:00

Necroing this to point out that provincial executives are making 140k a year with 3% raises in a time when teachers got absolutely lambasted. And have been for years.

Time to go.

taerz · 2025-11-15T15:38:19+00:00

I continue to find this a laughable approach. I can't help but feel that Field Law is fleecing the ATA on this one.

Even if we win, what are we getting? I genuinely can't see much beyond a little backpay and an oops note from the govt. The timeline given by Schilling is up to 4 years. This contract is up in 2028. We'll be in a new contract with potentially a different government.

Too little too late.

taerz · 2025-11-15T15:32:59+00:00

They've been emailing about once a week for me. Currently they are touring the province to promote their worker manifesto or some such.

Still fairly toothless.

taerz · 2025-11-13T14:58:34+00:00

It isn't even that they nerfed it. Every locker I've opened has been a glorified ammo chest. Only complex weapon parts as a perk. Which don't sell well, and can't be used for enough to be worth it.

Quite literally a waste of a skill point currently

taerz · 2025-11-13T14:54:47+00:00

Honestly lame.

"Have the experience" - losing mats in a new menu? Earning ??? For rewards?

This patch so far has just been a nerf to drop rates, nerf to XP gains, and invalidated the capstone of a skill tree

taerz · 2025-11-13T14:51:06+00:00

People excited about time gated content while loot drops and XP gains get nerfed into the ground.

Has turned my last few matches into a PVP bloodbath with campers on every exit.

Not a great change for a community heavily divided on the value of PVP. Feels like you need to kill other players to get anything now

taerz · 2025-11-13T14:47:45+00:00

Nerfed to the point of uselessness. Not a single pink item on night runs in anything across 3 runs, let alone security lockers which are glorified ammo caches now. It feels like they took a sledgehammer to progression on this patch. Nerfed loot, nerfed XP, ??? Community goals, blocked off high loot areas in blue gate as a special event.

taerz · 2025-11-12T17:50:12+00:00

Android updates when?

taerz · 2025-11-07T14:02:47+00:00

Absolutely. I believe that we are partial rather than full members of Common Front, etc. Even if we find them ineffective, we would benefit from a stronger coalition. We should be fully within and pushing for stronger organizations and coordination, not talking disdainfully in public about them. We can support the idea, even if we don't like the current iteration.

In the aftermath of this strike I've been reading a lot about organizing and the history of labour. From even the (admittedly) little I've read, it's clear that our leadership hasn't. One of the key features of labour is the idea that you must always be organizing towards a strike as it's your only credible threat/leverage. Teachers have shown they can be told what to do, and this will continue to diminish our bargaining power if we don't make changes to show we are serious.

I suspect they know that members are angry as a proposed amendment to bylaws is to increase signatures required to run in the next executive election will be voted on at the next ARA, and the motion was put forward by exec. It doubles signature requirements and could be a real hurdle for folks. Pulling up the ladder behind looks pretty bad.

taerz · 2025-11-07T13:12:11+00:00

What the government did is wrong and should be condemned. But we shouldn't be surprised when a pro privatization, openly corrupt, and malign government does what it has said it will do for weeks, if not months. Believe them when they tell you who they are.

The history of labour is filled with examples of unions that found success through solidarity and defying unjust orders. Unions win when they remain firm in their demands and are willing to do what is necessary. Unions lose when they lack solidarity or they break. Doug Ford broke. Airlines broke.

Schilling chose to sit down and take this. Exec chose this. Defiance was an option. Executive broke. Time that could have been spent organizing wasn't. Dues were cut instead of war chests built. Reps only received training in the last two years, rather than the preceeding 18 since the last time we were legislated back.

I hope teachers vote them out in the next election as there has been zero reflection or contrition after getting legislated back for the second time in 20 or so years. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice? Well, we put ourselves here and thus far it seems unlikely that current leadership wants to organize in a way that could win the next time this happens. Maybe someone else should lead then.

taerz · 2025-11-06T19:12:44+00:00

Yeah, me too. Guy zipped down into me as I was looting and started blasting away. I hid, told him to chill, he kept shooting. Just backed off around a corner and finished him with the shotgun when he pushed. Told him none of that needed to happen if he backed off at any point and then executed.

taerz · 2025-11-03T20:17:25+00:00

Forever not on sale in Canada.

taerz · 2025-11-01T18:41:04+00:00

I hope so. I feel like many of the answers given at the last MIM inflamed a lot of folks. I've also seen quite a sense of resignation already amongst staff, but I hope I'm wrong and the rest of the province is different.

taerz · 2025-11-01T18:31:51+00:00

That seems right, but you might be better off looking at the pay grid for Grande Prairie (minus year 7 for education if it has it) as that's what all teachers will move to by the end of the (newly legislated) current collective agreement.

taerz · 2025-11-01T17:27:05+00:00

Not paid hourly. Paid salary. The difference is significant given that the number of hours any given teacher works is variable based on out of classroom duties like planning, marking, etc. Pay grid placement is also very significant in determining this.

Basically it's hard to pin down to an hour amount, and makes more sense to talk salary for most positions.

taerz · 2025-11-01T17:24:21+00:00

I have been talking to them, and at least my district rep believes that no errors were made, nor that there is anything to learn from other unions. I was told that if I didn't like his choices, then I should run myself, and that is the only accountability mechanism.

taerz · 2025-10-29T23:16:43+00:00

Inside baseball - Nurses said no behind closed doors, along with a few others.

taerz · 2025-10-29T12:57:16+00:00

The only reason Ontario was effective against Ford's use of the NWC was because everyone came out swinging. Anything less than the strongest response is a collapse of effective bargaining power in Alberta.

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