Amazon warehouse and distribution center at the Montreal Industrial Park, Quebec, Canada, Thursday, September 1, 2022.
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Amazon He should face the Legal Procedure of the Canadian Union after the decision of the company to end the business of the Quebec warehouse.
Federation of national unions, known as CSN, said Tuesday He plans to ask the court to order Amazon to reope seven warehouses and return 1,700 jobs lost as a result of closing.
Amazon Announced at the end of last month This would abolish seven places in Quebec “after the recent review of” his business in the province, which is the only place in Canada with the union employees of Amazon. The company announced that it would return to a third -party delivery model, entering the subcontractors to process delivery.
“Amazon thinks that it can only transfer work to other corporate subjects and transfer some storage and delivery jobs,” CSN President Caroline Senneville said in a statement. “What he calls the” new business model “is just an attempt to bypass his obligations under the Labor Law. The court should admit that this scheme is violating the law and that he may order the re -establishment of Amazon’s workers.”
Amazon representatives did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
CSN represents approximately 240 Amazon workers in warehouse near Laval suburbs in Montreal. Workers at the site associated last Maybecoming the first Amazon warehouse in Canada to do so.
After closing, the Canadian Minister of the Francoise-Philippe Champagne Industry wrote yes Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expressed his “disappointment” for the decision, saying that “he asks questions about your dedication to Canada and your Canadian partners.”
Champagne said the Government would consider reviewing its current contracts with Amazon.
Amazon also faces the growing pressure of working with American workers in Amazon warehouse in North Carolina plan to vote next week about whether to join the union, while the Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted last month Join United Food and Commercial Workers.
Amazon employees at State Island in New York, 2022 They founded the first company of a company in the US warehouse, although they have not yet provided a contract. The group voted to join the teams last June.
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