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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Protesters accusing Amazon of union-busting gathered in downtown Montreal today to continue their calls for a boycott of the company after it decided to shutter its Quebec warehouses in the province in January. Félix Trudeau, union president for the Laval, Que., Amazon warehouse that unionized last May, was one…
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By Joe Bongiorno The Canadian Press Posted February 8, 2025 1:44 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The union that represents workers at what was Canada’s only unionized Amazon warehouse says the online retail giant has begun shutting down its seven facilities in Quebec this week, putting thousands of…
The CSN union is calling on a boycott on all Amazon products to protest the e-commerce giant’s plan to close its Quebec warehouses. At a press conference on Tuesday, CSN president Caroline Senneville called the move “blatant union-busting” which violates several sections of the Quebec labour code. She said it’s an attempt to intimidate workers,…
The battle lines have been drawn in a growing feud between Amazon and workers in Quebec as the union prepares to announce a lawsuit in retribution to the company’s province-wide facility closures. On Jan. 22, the U.S. e-commerce giant said it will close all seven of its facilities in Quebec over the next couple of…
A Calgary couple is fighting with their insurance company to fix damage their mechanic says was caused two years ago during a collision with an Amazon delivery vehicle. The hit-and-run collision happened Feb. 19, 2023, on a residential street in southeast Calgary’s New Brighton neighbourhood. “We were in our basement and our neighbour came running…
Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Pennsylvania voted to unionize on Monday, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the Amazon-owned grocery store chain. Employees at the Philadelphia store at 21st Street and Pennsylvania Avenue cast 130 votes — or about 57% of the ballots cast — in…
Amazon Canada will close all seven of its facilities in Quebec over the next couple of months, the company announced Wednesday. Some 1,950 workers — 1,700 permanent and 250 temporary — will be laid off. Amazon spokesperson Barbara Agrait dismissed concerns that the closures are linked to the recent unionization push in the province. She…
Meta and Amazon are scaling down their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs as conservative criticism of such initiatives grows, particularly ahead of Republican Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency. The decisions reflect a broader trend among major corporations moving away from diversity policies that gained traction after the 2020 protests over the killing…
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