SaskTel workers remain on picket lines

REGINA — On October 4 nearly 5,000 workers at SaskTel, SaskEnergy, SaskPower, SaskWater, DirectWest, SecurTek, and the province’s Water Security Agency went on strike. All of the employees are represented by Unifor.Some of those Crown employees had returned to work earlier this week and SaskTel workers were about to as well, but the company told them to stay off the job.After announcing a return to work “SaskTel workers have now been locked out by the employer, triggering a cancellation of the planned return to work at other Crown corporations,” reads a Unifor press release.However, the union reportedly planned to send...