Contract talks between the provincial negotiator and the Alberta Teachers’ Association have reached an impasse, with the ATA walking away from the table, the province said in a news release late Thursday.

The release, issues by Finance Minister Nate Horner and Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides, indicates that the Teachers’ Employer Bargaining Association (TEBA) had on Tuesday made an offer that included hiring 1,000 more teachers every year over the next three years, at the cost of $750 million, as well as a 12 per cent salary increase over four years, plus “an additional increase that would further improve the salaries of 95 per cent of their members over the next four years.”

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