Amazon to face legal action after Quebec warehouse closures

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to face legal action after Quebec warehouse closures

An

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warehouse and distribution centre in an industrial park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. 

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is set to face legal action from a ********* union after the company’s decision to wind down warehouse operations in Quebec.

The Federation of National Trade Unions, known as CSN,

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it plans to petition a court to order

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to reopen seven warehouses and restore the 1,700 jobs lost as a result of the closures.

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announced late last month it would phase out seven sites in Quebec “following a recent review” of its operations in the province, which is the only location in Canada with unionized

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employees. The company said it would return to a third-party delivery model, enlisting subcontractors to handle deliveries.

“

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thinks it can just shift the work to other corporate entities and outsource some warehousing and delivery operations,” CSN president Caroline Senneville said in a statement. “What it calls the ‘new business model’ is just an attempt to circumvent its obligations under the Labour Code. The court should recognize that this scheme violates the law and it can then order the reinstatement of

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’s workers.”

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did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The CSN represents roughly 240

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workers at a warehouse near the Montreal suburb of Laval. Workers at the site

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, becoming the first

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warehouse in Canada to do so.

Following the closures, Canada’s industry minister Francoise-Philippe Champagne

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CEO Andy Jassy expressing his “disappointment” over the decision, saying it “raises questions about your commitment to Canada and your ********* partners.”

Champagne said the government would consider conducting a review of its current deals with

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also faces growing labor pressure in the U.S. Workers at an

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warehouse in North Carolina are slated to vote next week on whether to join a union, while Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted last month to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

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employees at a facility in Staten Island, New York, in 2022 formed the company’s first union at a U.S. warehouse, though they have yet to secure a contract. The group voted to affiliate with the Teamsters last June. 

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