WINNIPEG A Manitoba organization that helps refugees navigate coming to a new country has locked out unionized settlement workers amid funding issues the organization said it’s trying to address, in part, through employee operational costs. Welcome Place, also known as the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council (MIIC) locked out workers Tuesday morning and said services to clients will still be provided but didn’t elaborate on how that would happen. The move affects 23 settlement workers whose union said the workers have already taken wage decreases and shouldn’t have to sacrifice anymore. “The employees really wished to be at work, they showed up this morning to go to work but the doors were locked and they’ve been told that they’re no longer to provide services to the refugees that surely need them,” said Scott Clark, a national representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees which represents employees at Welcome Place.