Overview

• The Quebec labour tribunal begins hearing witnesses in the CSN’s complaint over Amazon’s January shutdown of seven warehouses.
• The first scheduled witness is the president of Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services, according to the union.
• About 1,700 workers lost their jobs after the closures, which followed the unionization of a Laval facility months earlier.
• The CSN asks the tribunal to order a restart of operations and to grant more than a year’s salary per employee plus moral and punitive damages.
• Amazon says the decision stemmed from an efficiency review, not union activity, and notes severance of up to 14 weeks’ pay and a shift to local delivery partners.