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The union that represents employees at what was Canada’s solely unionized Amazon warehouse says the web retail large has begun shutting down its seven amenities in Quebec this week, placing 1000’s of workers out of labor.
Félix Trudeau, union president for the Laval, Que., warehouse that unionized final Might, says the three warehouses within the Montreal space, together with his personal, have been closed late Friday evening, at some point sooner than anticipated.
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He says some employees confirmed as much as their shifts final evening solely to seek out out the warehouses shuttered whereas a fourth warehouse that was anticipated to shut in March closed earlier this week.
The corporate is chopping some 1,700 everlasting jobs, however Quebec labour group Confédération des syndicats nationaux says the variety of whole layoffs rises to about 4,500 when employees employed by subcontractors are factored in.
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Trudeau has accused the e-commerce goliath of closing its warehouses within the province to punish workers at his facility for unionizing final Might, and he’s calling on all ranges of presidency to boycott the corporate till it reopens its amenities or agrees to pay all its laid-off workers one 12 months’s wage with advantages.
Amazon has not responded to requests for remark however has beforehand dismissed claims that the layoffs are linked to a latest unionization push within the province.
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