The federal industry minister is calling for a review of Ottawa’s “business relationship” with Amazon after the company said it will close all seven of its warehouses in Quebec. “They’ll have me fighting to make sure that this is not going to go unanswered in Canada,” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said. The closure will eliminate…
Last May, about 230 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Laval, Que., successfully unionized — a historic first in Canada at the retail giant. The CSN, the union that represents the workers in Laval, said workers were dissatisfied with what they described as a hectic work pace, low wages and inadequate health and safety measures. Amazon has only…
Amazon on Wednesday said it was closing all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions gained a foothold in one of its facilities, and would lay off 1,700 employees. The closures represent a U-turn from Amazon’s recent investments in the province. The company opened three delivery stations in 2021,…