Amazon is closing its facilities in Quebec, but says it’s not because of this new union

Amazon just announced that it will close its facilities in Quebec in the coming weeks. . This move will eliminate more than 1,700 jobs. The company said it will begin outsourcing deliveries to smaller contractors, rather than relying on its in-house team.

“Following a recent review of our operations in Quebec, we have found that returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses, similar to what we had until 2020, will enable us to provide the same excellent service and deliver greater savings to our customers in the long term,” the company said in a statement. “

This comes after A In an Amazon warehouse in Quebec. The workers joined the Confederation of National Unions (CSN), which represents about 330,000 people in many industries in Canada. Amazon allegedly fought these efforts, going on to say that union certification would not “respect the interests of its employees.”

“This decision makes absolutely no sense,” CSN President Caroline Sainville said in a statement. “Neither from a commercial standpoint nor from an operational standpoint. Does Amazon, one of the most integrated companies between the click of a mouse and home delivery, outsource all of its warehousing and distribution throughout Quebec to a third party?”

Don’t worry. Amazon says the mass layoffs are not due to the aforementioned union, suggesting it was a simple cost-cutting measure. We have to take the company seriously because it always has And a . That was sarcasm.

In any case, the company is expected to close the facilities within the next two months. Employees will be given a severance package of some sort, but details have not yet been revealed. Regardless of nothing, Amazon is worth almost as much . Its value has doubled in the last year or so.