By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted January 22, 2025 10:09 am
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Amazon Canada says it is closing each 7 of its warehouses successful Quebec implicit the adjacent 2 months.
The online retailer says 1,700 imperishable employees successful the state volition beryllium laid off, arsenic volition 250 impermanent workers.
The determination comes amid strained labour relations with unionized employees astatine the multinational’s warehouse successful Laval, Que., a Montreal suburb.
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Amazon had opposed the workers’ accreditation with the Confederation of National Trade Unions successful May, but the retail elephantine mislaid its situation astatine the province’s labour tribunal successful October.
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The institution says its determination to adjacent its Quebec warehouses “was not made lightly,” adding that the closures aren’t successful effect to the unionization drive.
Amazon will revert to the concern exemplary it utilized successful Quebec successful 2020, which relied connected third-party companies for bundle delivery.
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