Quebec’s labour tribunal has given union accreditation to workers at an Amazon warehouse in Laval, Que., a first in Canada.

Workers at the DXT4 warehouse, located in Laval, a suburb north of Montreal, had been working toward unionizing with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) for two years.

The CSN filed an application with Quebec’s Administrative Labour Tribunal on April 19 to represent some 200 employees. The decision came down Friday.

Caroline Senneville, the CSN’s president, said employees were dissatisfied with what they described as a hectic work pace, low wages, and inadequate health and safety measures.

  • Rentlar
    15•6 months ago

    Amazon has previously stated that the company does not require employees to meet fixed productivity targets.

    Haven’t heard much of it in the last while but isn’t this because the productivity targets are variable, i.e. they start out lenient then gradually increase until a person’s breaking point?

    ETA: something along the lines of this article from The Verge

    • Avid Amoeba
      5•6 months ago

      Oh this sounds brilliant. And they can’t even show what the targets are because they don’t know them. Some lambda computes them on the fly, per person, per hour.