Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will close all warehouses and logistics in Quebec, Canada, one of the company's facilities, and will fire 1,700 employees.
This closure means a change in direction from Amazon's recent investment. The company opened three delivery stations in 2021 and opened one delivery station last year. There were also a small full -fillment center in Quebec and two warehouses that sorted luggage.
According to Mark Wolflat, a warehouse industry consultant who has been studying Amazon's logistics networks for many years based in Montreal, investment is about 2 million square feet operating area.
According to a statement by Barbara Agrey, the company's spokeswoman, Amazon said it would close the seven facilities to “provide customers with the same excellent services and further savings as before.”
Amazon will continue to provide services to Quebec customers by preparing luggage at nearby state facilities and returning to the operational model before the third party delivery company to Quebec.
Amazon's first union in Canada was composed of about 230 warehouse workers in Raval, northern Montreal, after the formation of the union in May. However, the company claimed in a local labor court to form union formula. The organization argued that workers should cancel the union certification because the workers signed the union card without voting and expressed their support. The court made a disadvantageous decision on Amazon in October just before the peak of the year -end sales war.
Amazon said that the lawsuit on this issue continues.
“They have clearly clarified that they have not wanted to expand this situation,” said Wolfrat's approach. The company has more than 46,000 corporate employees and management employees in Canada.
Federal Innovation Minister François Philippne, Philippne, said he was disappointed to the Amazon, Canada in a post.
“This is not a business way in Canada,” he says.
The National Union, a labor union that represents the workers, said that one of the Amazon lawyers was informed by e -mail early this morning. In a statement, the Federation chairman Caroline Senville stated that since the union was launched three years ago, she has suppressed the union's movements through actions called “disguised disguise”.
“For all workers in Quebec, this is a flat hand on the face,” she said.
Amazon denied the union's claim that the dismissal was unfair.
The population of the Montreal Metropolitan Area is about 4.5 million and is wider than the Seattle metropolitan area. Withdrawing the business from a densely populated area is that Amazon has advertised as a central factor in the success of its business in recent years, that is, to enable more prompt delivery. Putting nearby is conflicting. Amazon has repeatedly stated that this reduces delivery costs and increases customer order frequency.
In the last few years, Amazon has not abandoned direct business in large -scale population densely populated in North America, but is a daily hard -consist of states that are trying to collect taxes for online sales ten years ago. He showed his posture.
Wal -Mart and other retailers have struggled to establish a logistics base in Quebec, where about two of the workers have joined the union. According to government data, this is the highest percentage of Canadian states, about four times the United States.
Quebec's Prime Minister François Lugo said that Amazon's movement was “personal decisions by private companies.”
“I can understand the difficulty for 1,700 related households,” said Lugo at a press conference on Wednesday, and Most of his remarks were mobilized in Quebec in accordance with Trump's tariffs, and he needed to buy local products. He focused on sex. threat.
The state Minister of Labor, Jean Boure, said that workers affected by the closure of warehouses would receive government support from the government to find new jobs.
