First Amazon warehouse unionizing in Québec

jfranger — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:30:23 +0000

“After months of effort, Amazon employees succeeded in convincing their co-workers that they must stand together to win against the behemoth,” said CSN President Caroline Senneville. “On Friday, we notified the Tribunal that a majority of employees at the DXT4 warehouse had signed union cards. We are asking the ALT to recognize their desire to form a union and we will be closely watching the…

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How AmCare looks after us — or doesn’t

jfranger — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:21:28 +0000

Because of the high number of work-related accidents, many of our co-workers are regularly absent from work without pay. Under Québec’s occupational health and safety laws, every employer is required to report work-related accidents and ask the CNESST to pay compensation to employees who have to miss work as a result. What about Amazon? Instead of sending us to a doctor, AmCare gives us an…

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Intimidation campaign against unionization at Amazon

jfranger — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:02:43 +0000

A few days after the first, the CSN sent Amazon another formal notice after Amazon literally plastered the break rooms with information leaflets about the CSN’s unionization campaign. Over the past few days, Amazon has also been sending all employees text messages directly to their cellphones. Multiple photos taken by members of the Montréal Amazon Workers Union (MAWU-CSN) show the many…

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CSN sends formal notice in response to interference by Amazon

jfranger — Fri, 20 May 2022 18:43:53 +0000

The Confédération des syndicats nationaux levelled the charge in a formal notice sent to Amazon today. In the letter to Jean-François Héroux, General Manager of the YUL2 warehouse in Lachine, the union protested against Héroux’s comments in an executive newsletter sent to all employees. Referring to the CSN-backed campaign to organize the 300 employees, Héroux wrote, “I want to retain the…

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First CSN union at Amazon

jfranger — Wed, 04 May 2022 18:16:12 +0000

MAWU members have been working hard to organize the first Amazon warehouse in Québec. Today they focused on the low wages at Amazon’s warehouse in Lachine on the Island of Montréal. At warehouses and distribution centres where workers are represented by unions affiliated with the CSN’s Fédération du commerce, the average wage is around $26 per hour. Amazon workers earn only $18.45.

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