Photo: The QEC strike, day one

Striking workers wave flags and chant slogans outside the Qulliq Energy Corp.’s building in Iqaluit on the morning of July 16. QEC employees, who have been without a contract since Dec. 31, 2013, began the strike and set up picket lines just after midnight July 16. The power corporation’s unionized workers say the QEC isn’t offering them enough money. (PHOTO BY THOMAS ROHNER)