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Keesan Corey spent two days on the picket line after his union voted to strike late last year. Then he called his manager and said he wanted to go back to work.

Corey, a 19-year-old business student from just outside Delisle, Sask., is among the 205 workers Saskatoon Co-op says have crossed the picket line since the strike began Nov. 1.

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In an interview this week, the three-year co-op employee said his motivation for crossing the line and risking discipline from his union was not, as a local expert said is commonly the case, financial.

Instead, Corey said he decided to take off his United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1400 bib because he felt more connected to the co-operative than the union, and wasn’t happy with how the strike played out.

“Picketing for the few days I did, I saw more and more that the union’s values didn’t align with what the company is trying to get at,” Corey said, referring to instances of “yelling” at customers crossing the line.