Summary
Amazon is shutting down all seven of its Quebec warehouses, affecting 1,700 regular employees and 250 seasonal workers.
Employees will receive severance packages and transitional benefits.
Amazon claims the closures are part of a return to a third-party delivery model used prior to 2020, not linked to the unionization of workers at a Laval warehouse.
Union leaders criticized the move as “anti-union,” and Quebec officials pledged support for displaced workers.
The layoffs have sparked concerns about Amazon’s labor practices and economic impacts on the region.
The Quebec government started a thing like that during the pandemic but they folded it a year or so ago.