Just how far will Amazon go to throttle unions? The corporate behemoth, valued at a staggering $2.47 trillion, is notorious for its union-busting. Amazon workers at the massive JFK8 warehouse voted for their union in 2022,
The online retail giant said the move was not linked to recent unionization efforts by workers in the Canadian province.
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.
Terrorism is defined as an act of violence, usually harming innocents, that is motivated by a political or ideological goal. By that standard, write economist Jim Stanford, Amazon’s decision to shut all seven of its warehouses (euphemistically called ‘fulfilment centres’) in Québec,
Amazon cited a need to cut costs as the main motivation behind the move, although Quebec is also home to the company's only unionized warehouse in Canada.
Retail giant Amazon is ending its operations in Québec, closing seven operation sites and cutting roughly 1,900 jobs, according to Radio-Canada. It will continue to deliver orders to customers in Québec through third-party distributors, similar to how it operated in 2020, the company said.
A controversial Utah bill originally seeking to ban public labor unions from collective bargaining is moving toward compromise.
The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, through the Brazilian Empire and the Andean Republics of the nineteenth century,
In response to a successful unionization effort at a warehouse in Quebec, Amazon is shuttering its operations in the entire province. Its punitive behavior demonstrates that traditional organizing methods won’t work on the corporate behemoth.
Union membership among American men is on the decline, raising questions about the future of organized labor in the U.S. workforce.
Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Pennsylvania voted to unionize on Monday, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the Amazon-owned grocery store chain.