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Mike Day is the kind of New Democrat who keeps pro-pipeline bumper stickers stacked up on his desk.

Needless to say, he’s not having an easy time this election campaign.

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“I kind of look at it as, we’re damned if we do, we’re damned if we don’t,” Day said.

That’s because he feels forced to choose between his job and his values. He’s not the only one at Evraz’s Regina steel mill feeling “torn every which way,” as he puts it. Day is president of United Steelworkers 5890, whose roughly 1,050 members are worried the party of labour could put them out of work.

“This time, our local does not feel we can support the federal NDP,” said Day.

It wasn’t always this way. Day said USW 5890 actively supported the federal NDP in 2015, sending members to campaign for Erin Weir in Regina—Lewvan.

He called Weir a “friend of steel.”

But Weir isn’t running this time, and the local is officially sitting out the campaign. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has come out against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and said he wouldn’t impose pipelines on provinces who don’t want them — something that sounds to many like a veto for Quebec and B.C.