Cameco employees in ‘shock’ after company announces hundreds of Sask. layoffs

Source: Hailey Salvian, CBC News, July 26, 2018 

About 700 employees were sent home Wednesday due to a weak uranium market

Employees permanently laid off by uranium miner Cameco Corp. in Saskatchewan say they have been blindsided by the company’s decision to make the temporary suspension in production indefinite.

“We were told up till yesterday we would be returning to our jobs in November of 2018,” said Denis O’Hara, the president of Local 8914 of United Steelworkers union, which represents Cameco employees.

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