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

Amazon recently announced that it will be closing its Quebec facilities in the coming weeks, . The move will cut more than 1,700 jobs. The company said it will begin outsourcing supplies to subcontractors, instead of relying on its own internal team.

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

This follows at Amazon’s warehouse in Quebec. The workers joined the Confédération des syndicats nationalaux (CSN), which represents about 330,000 people in many Canadian industries. Amazon is said to have fought the efforts, continuing to say that the union’s approval would not “respect the interests of its workers.”

“This decision makes absolutely no sense,” said CSN president Caroline Senneville in a statement. “Not from a business point of view, or from an operational point of view. Amazon, one of the most integrated companies between the click of a mouse and home delivery, could entrust all its storage and distribution operations throughout Quebec to a third party?”

Don’t worry. Amazon says the major layoffs are not due to the aforementioned union, indicating it was simply a cost-cutting measure. We should definitely take the company at its word because it has always been around. That was ridiculous.

In any case, the company is expected to close these facilities in the next two months. Employees will be offered a severance package of some sort, but details have not been disclosed. Apropos of nothing, Amazon is worth almost. The price has doubled in the last year or so.