As the work stoppage at Cameco drags on, businesses that rely on uranium mining are trying to hold on as best they can.
Northern Resource Trucking depends on Cameco for most of its work.
It hauls everything from groceries and supplies to the mine sites to yellowcake after it is removed from the ground.
Company president Dave McIlmoyl says it is tough trying to get by when your biggest customer is shut down.
He says he is doing his best to find other work for his truckers while they wait for the labour dispute to end.
“Well we will do what anyone in the trucking business would do. When your main source of revenue is gone we will find other business. I mean the main thing to understand here is that this will eventually be over and Cameco will again need service at Key Lake and McArthur River, so we need to make sure we have our workforce preserved to keep that going.”
More than 500 workers at McArthur River and Key Lake were locked out August 30 after serving strike notice on the company. The workers have been without a contract since December of 2013.