CUPE Local 3550 president Mandy Lamoureux has said the average educational support worker in Alberta earns $34,500 per year.
WATCH ABOVE: The Alberta NDP is calling on the UCP government to act as thousands of school support workers prepare to walk off the job in Edmonton. Jasmine King reports.Alberta’s Opposition NDP is calling on the provincial government to act as thousands of school support workers prepare to walk off the job in Edmonton and some nearby communities.
The union is demanding fair wages for the more than 3,000 education support workers it represents in both divisions. Counterparts in Fort McMurray began picketing earlier this week. “It is unconscionable for the government to continue to underfund education and allow EAs to not be adequately compensated for the important and demanding work they do to ensure all of our kids have access to the education they need and deserve,” Opposition NDP deputy leader Rakhi Pancholi told reporters Friday.“We can’t let the UCP get away with blaming either the shockingly underpaid workers or the most underfunded school boards in the country for this situation.
Asked Friday about Horner’s comments, Pancholi called them an insult to education workers and accused the province of misleading Albertans by pointing the finger at underfunded school boards.She added the province sets the terms for negotiations and school boards can only do what they can with their current funding.Pam Puri told the news conference her 12-year-old daughter with special needs could not attend school without her education assistant’s support.
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