An Amazon warehouse and organisation centre successful an concern parkland successful Montreal, Quebec, Canada, connected Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022.
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Amazon is acceptable to look ineligible enactment from a Canadian national aft the company's determination to upwind down warehouse operations successful Quebec.
The Federation of National Trade Unions, known arsenic CSN, said Tuesday it plans to petition a tribunal to bid Amazon to reopen 7 warehouses and reconstruct the 1,700 jobs mislaid arsenic a effect of the closures.
Amazon announced precocious past month it would signifier retired 7 sites successful Quebec "following a caller review" of its operations successful the province, which is the lone determination successful Canada with unionized Amazon employees. The institution said it would instrumentality to a third-party transportation model, enlisting subcontractors to grip deliveries.
"Amazon thinks it tin conscionable displacement the enactment to different firm entities and outsource immoderate warehousing and transportation operations," CSN president Caroline Senneville said successful a statement. "What it calls the 'new concern model' is conscionable an effort to circumvent its obligations nether the Labour Code. The tribunal should admit that this strategy violates the instrumentality and it tin past bid the reinstatement of Amazon's workers."
Representatives from Amazon did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
The CSN represents astir 240 Amazon workers astatine a warehouse adjacent the Montreal suburb of Laval. Workers astatine the tract unionized past May, becoming the archetypal Amazon warehouse successful Canada to bash so.
Following the closures, Canada's manufacture curate Francoise-Philippe Champagne wrote to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expressing his "disappointment" implicit the decision, saying it "raises questions astir your committedness to Canada and your Canadian partners."
Champagne said the authorities would see conducting a reappraisal of its existent deals with Amazon.
Amazon besides faces increasing labour unit successful the U.S. Workers astatine an Amazon warehouse successful North Carolina are slated to ballot adjacent week connected whether to articulation a union, portion Whole Foods workers successful Philadelphia voted past month to articulation the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
Amazon employees astatine a installation successful Staten Island, New York, in 2022 formed the company's archetypal national astatine a U.S. warehouse, though they person yet to unafraid a contract. The radical voted to affiliate with the Teamsters past June.
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