UCP government faults union 'tactics' as picketing school support workers gain momentum

UCP government faults union 'tactics' as picketing school support workers gain momentum

Buoyed by warmer temperatures, strike action picked up among education support workers around the province, amidst Premier Danielle Smith’s repeated assertions of union strong-arm tactics, and union assertions that Smith’s not telling the whole story.

Who's backing up the UCP in their fight against education support workers?

Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government, up to its figurative eyeballs in the murky and still-growing AHS procurement scandal, haven’t had much time to wage media war against the education support workers who continue to strike for better pay and working conditions in Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray and elsewhere. But that doesn’t mean their allies outside of the Legislature aren’t on the job. Spotted in the wild this week: a conservative…