{"id":636,"date":"2022-05-04T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/?p=636"},"modified":"2022-06-22T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:40:02","slug":"first-csn-union-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/first-csn-union-at-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"First CSN union at Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAWU members have been working hard to organize the first Amazon warehouse in Qu\u00e9bec. Today they focused on the low wages at Amazon&rsquo;s warehouse in Lachine on the Island of Montr\u00e9al. At warehouses and distribution centres where workers are represented by unions affiliated with the CSN&rsquo;s F\u00e9d\u00e9ration du commerce, the average wage is around $26 per hour. Amazon workers earn only $18.45.<\/p>\n<h4>In addition to better pay, MAWU-CSN is demanding:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Paid sick days<\/li>\n<li>Safety measures to reduce work accidents<\/li>\n<li>Clear rules about the operation of work teams and employee rotation<\/li>\n<li>An additional paid break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MAWU-CSN activists are relying on the Qu\u00e9bec Labour Code, which guarantees total confidentiality for employees who sign a union card. Qu\u00e9bec law also provides that if 50% + 1 of employees join the union, it will be recognized by the Administrative Labour Tribunal without any further vote, unlike in the United States and other Canadian provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at Amazon&rsquo;s Lachine fulfilment centre (YUL2) approached the CSN to form their first union several weeks ago. The organizing campaign is currently underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAWU members have been working hard to organize the first Amazon warehouse in Qu\u00e9bec. Today they focused on the low wages at Amazon&rsquo;s warehouse in Lachine on the Island of Montr\u00e9al. At warehouses and distribution centres where workers are represented by unions affiliated with the CSN&rsquo;s F\u00e9d\u00e9ration du commerce, the average wage is around $26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}