{"id":21682,"date":"2014-08-13T03:32:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21682"},"modified":"2014-08-13T03:32:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:32:50","slug":"potential-labour-snag-dug-up-at-northern-saskatchewan-uranium-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/13\/potential-labour-snag-dug-up-at-northern-saskatchewan-uranium-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential labour snag dug up at northern Saskatchewan uranium sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9805\" style=\"width: 1850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mining.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9805\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mining.png\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1850\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mining.png 1850w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mining-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mining-1024x602.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1850px) 100vw, 1850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SASKATOON &#8212; Hundreds of unionized workers at a uranium mine and a processing mill in remote northern Saskatchewan have voted in favour of a strike to back contract demands.<\/p>\n<p>The workers include about 540 employees of Cameco&#8217;s McArthur River mine, the Key Lake mill, as well as catering and cleaning staff at both sites.<\/p>\n<p>The United Steelworkers Union Local 8914 says 92 per cent of those who cast ballots voted for a labour disruption to bolster their position at the bargaining table.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations are scheduled to wrap up Aug. 28 and the union says if there&#8217;s no progress by then, the membership has authorized a strike, which has never occurred before at a Cameco mine.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators for the company and the union have been meeting since the last collective agreements expired this past December.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Cameco&#8217;s website says there&#8217;s risk to production if a work stoppage occurs, but company spokesman Rob Gereghty says the uranium giant has a long relationship with the union and hopes it can reach an agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASKATOON &#8212; Hundreds of unionized workers at a uranium mine and a processing mill in remote northern Saskatchewan have voted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}