Workers, businesses in shock over potash layoffs in Lanigan
A group of men joke as they sit around a table at the local union building in Lanigan, but the topic they're discussing is no laughing matter.
People in town are still grappling with the shocking news that 240 workers were laid off from the town's potash mine Tuesday morning.
About 70 workers are from the Lanigan area, like Jamie Deederly.
“I didn't even get a phone call or nothing, I went in (to work) to see traffic, people, chaos. It's brutal, it's not a good feeling,” he said while sitting at a long table, sifting through papers.