The union head at the Evraz steel mill in Regina says roughly 250 to 300 employees have either been laid off or have received notices they’ll be out of a job because there’s a lack of work according to a CBC article. The layoffs are primarily affecting workers who make large diameter pipe in the mill’s tubular division. In December 2020, the company notified the union they were laying off nearly 500 workers because of a bleak outlook on large pipe projects. Day said the company then rehired about 400 people in January to fill an order, but then started issuing the layoff notices in May. The union leader said the tubular division originally had roughly 600 members in 2019 and now only has about 150. An Evraz North America spokesperson said in an emailed statement the company has laid off 170 workers since May after deciding to idle the large diameter pipe operation.
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