Summary

Amazon is shutting down all seven of its Quebec warehouses, affecting 1,700 regular employees and 250 seasonal workers.

Employees will receive severance packages and transitional benefits.

Amazon claims the closures are part of a return to a third-party delivery model used prior to 2020, not linked to the unionization of workers at a Laval warehouse.

Union leaders criticized the move as “anti-union,” and Quebec officials pledged support for displaced workers.

The layoffs have sparked concerns about Amazon’s labor practices and economic impacts on the region.

  • @[email protected]
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    445 hours ago

    Amazon claims the closures are part of a return to a third-party delivery model used prior to 2020, not linked to the unionization of workers at a Laval warehouse.

    yea. right.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 hours ago

      Like when Walmart closed two Midwest stores just after they unionized claiming it was due to “plumbing issues” before rebuilding new Walmarts right nearby.

  • Prior_Industry
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    285 hours ago

    Probably best for countries such as Canada to start thinking “Canada first” . No reason that they can’t have their own home grown version of a website with warehouses.

    • acargitz
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      23 hours ago

      The Quebec government started a thing like that during the pandemic but they folded it a year or so ago.