Canada’s industry minister said Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to shut down all warehouses in Quebec and cut close to 2,000 jobs would prompt the government to examine its current deals with the e-commerce and technology company.

Global News reported that New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh said of the closures: “What is happening in Quebec is very clearly Amazon trying to union-bust. These are workers that were trying to unionize, and Amazon is shutting down operations in the complete region, just to stop them from demanding fairness."

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Amazon.com said it is open to talks with officials from the Canadian and Quebec governments about the company's decision to shut down operations in the country's French-speaking province, which would lead to 1,

It was not immediately clear when Amazon would close its facilities, but the spokesperson told Radio-Canada it would happen in the "next two months." A Quebec Employment Ministry spokesperson ...

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Canada’s industry minister said Amazon.com Inc. ’s decision to shut down all warehouses in Quebec and cut more than 1,900 jobs would prompt the government to examine its current deals with the e-commerce and technology company.

About 240 Amazon workers at a company warehouse in Laval, a Montreal suburb, unionized in May, becoming the first of the tech company’s Canadian warehouses to do so. Amazon challenged the union’s right to represent the workers but lost at a provincial labor tribunal in October.

Amazon Canada says it will close all seven of its Quebec warehouses and lay off staff over the next two months. The e-commerce giant positioned the move scuttling 1,700 permanent jobs and 250

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Amazon announced on Wednesday it will shutter its facilities in Quebec in the coming weeks and cut nearly 2,000 jobs, 1,700 of which are permanent positions.