IOC plans to lay off fewer workers than first announced

The Iron Ore Company of Canada is laying off fewer workers than originally announced.

The company has decided that 55 of the 150 people who were supposed to lose their jobs will be kept on after all.

The company recentlyannounced it would lay off 150 staff as part of cost-cutting measures at the Labrador mine, including all janitorial service workers.

• IOC workers will soon be cleaning toilets once janitorial staff cut

Now, the company says not all of those employees will be laid off, which local union president Ron Thomas says isa bit of welcome good news in Labrador City.

"The majority of the people that were let go now or going to be laid off, we still have a need for them," he told CBC News.

"In the days to come, I'm hoping the company is going to realize we need these people on the floor."

Thomas says more workers will also be brought back for summer backfill, however he says the union still has big problems with the company including about 2,500 outstanding grievances.

"We're still having a lot of problems with this company," said Thomas. "Almost everyone I'm talking to is saying that morale is at an all-time low."

"But I mean it is a bit of good news. We got some of these members back."