Quebec union group urges Amazon boycott after warehouse closure announcement [Video]

A Quebec labour group is urging governments and the public to boycott Amazon because the online retail giant announced the closure of its seven warehouses in the province a few months after workers at one of the facilities voted to unionize.

CSN president Caroline Senneville describes Amazon’s January decision to close the warehouses as an anti-union move.

“It has always been clear that Amazon’s decision to close up all their shops, warehouses and businesses here in Quebec is only for one purpose: to stop the unionization effect, and to avoid signing what would have been the first collective agreement for Amazon in North America,” she told a news conference in Montreal on Tuesday.

The Confédération des syndicats nationaux says the closures, which come after workers at an Amazon warehouse in a Montreal suburb unionized in May, will eliminate 4,500 jobs with the online retailer and its subcontractors. The Laval, Que., …