In addition to the roughly 2,000 employees laid off by Amazon after the company announced it would be closing its Quebec ...
Amazon couldn’t shut down just the unionized Laval warehouse, “so the remaining option was to nuke their entire Quebec operations,” says McGill University’s Barry Eidlin.
The Amazon case recalls another dispute 20 years ago in Quebec involving Walmart Canada. In 2004, that company closed a store in Jonquière, Que., citing profitability troubles just months after ...
Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry François-Philippe Champagne is still trying to persuade Amazon to stay ...
After Amazon announced last week it was closing its operations in Quebec, laying off roughly 2,000 employees, it seems the ...
Reverting to a subcontractor-based delivery model in the province will also likely incur costs in terms of lost sales, as Amazon’s rationale for building its own warehouses in Quebec was to ...
The grocery chain’s store in Philadelphia becomes the first to join a union, where workers hope to expand organizing to other ...
Amazon may be closing its warehouses in Quebec to send a warning to unions, but it still has to get packages to customers.