Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures

The Labour Administrative Tribunal began hearing a case against Amazon concerning the closure in January of seven warehouses in the province by the e-commerce giant.

Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures

CSN union says it is asking the tribunal to overturn Amazon’s decision to close the seven centres and force the company to pay all 1,700 workers one year’s salary

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Hearings of the appeal brought by the CSN following the closure of the seven Amazon warehouses in Quebec began on the morning of May 16. Of these, two were located in Laval. The DXT4 had become, among other things, the first warehouse of the U.S. multinational to syndicate in Canada. The CSN requested the Administrative Labour Tribunal (ATT) to order the resumption of operations at the seven warehouses covered by the complaint and to pay each em…

MONTREAL — The Labour Administrative Tribunal began hearing a case against Amazon concerning the closure, in January, of seven warehouses in the province by the e-commerce giant. Nearly 1,700 employees lost their jobs following the sudden cessation of Amazon's activities in its warehouses in Quebec, a few months after the unionization of the workers of a Laval factory with the Confederation of National Unions (CSN). In a press release published …

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A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant’s closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs following Amazon’s sudden termination of its Quebec warehouse operations months after workers at a Montreal-area facility unionized with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux. In a news release, the CSN union says it is asking the tribunal to overturn Amazon’…