 Hi. You may have heard that your collective agreement is about to come up. No, not just yours, every teacher is in Alberta. And this go around, things are a little different. Negotiations don't look like they have in recent years. In 2016, the Alberta government passed legislation stating that bargaining would take place at two distinct tables. A central table, where the ETA representatives and a group called TEBA, where the teacher's employer bargaining authority, made up of school board trustees and government authorities, will decide on some issues like salary and term. And a local table, where your friendly neighborhood NSC will work together with your school board to strike a deal on local levels. Where do you come in? Well, you get to vote to accept any deal proposed centrally or locally. Voting locally will happen like it always does at a meeting in your community. But the central table voting will take place online. Voting online, how do you do that? Don't worry, it's easy. Step one, register for your ATA account at the ATA website, teachers.ab.ca. There's a good chance you've already done this and maybe you just need to dig up your old password or something. Try using the retrieve password function and you should get it no problem. But what if you don't have an account? Ah, then you need to go and register using your teacher's certification number. Don't know your number? No problem. Call Barnett House at 1-800-232-7208 and someone can get it for you really easily. Step two, click on the key. That's it, you're good to go. Voting information will be present here in the secured section of the website when it's time to vote. No, it's not there now, but it will be later on. In the meantime, you can read the Bargner's blog to keep up to date on everything that's happening at Central Table. Happy voting!