 When the strike ended in June 2000 with the dissolution of the union, he left journalism to work as Communications Director of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, which with about 90,000 members in 2016 is Alberta's largest union.In 2011, he went to work for the United Nurses of Alberta, which represents more than 30,000 Registered Nurses in Alberta.Climenhaga has also taught courses in introductory journalism, newspaper copy-editing and political science at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary and in journalism at The King's University College, a private Christian university in Edmonton.