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A father to six month old twins, picket captain Scott Weber isn’t spending as much time with them as he’d like, but he says the cause is worth it.

Weber works in the lab at Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC). On December 5, he was one of hundreds of unionized workerslocked out by CRC after contract negotiations came to a standstill.

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“I feel it’s worth it, not only for me as an employee at the refinery, but for retired employees at the refinery, and also as an active member in the labour movement,” said Weber in an interview Sunday. “This is very important.”

Important enough to cancel his travel plans to be with his sister and her young family in Alberta for Christmas so he can continue his presence on the picket line.

“People are in it for the long haul,” he said. “We’re prepared to be here on Christmas. We’re prepared to be here over New Years.”

Weber was one of dozens gathered at the Hotel Saskatchewan on Sunday morning as Unifor Local 594 lead negotiator and executive assistant to the national president Scott Dohertyannounced an escalation in the union’s campaign — a nation-wide boycott of all things Co-op until a fair deal is reached.