After conducting an investigation pursuant to the Labour Code, the ALT determined that a majority of employees at the DXT4 warehouse had chosen to join the union in order to negotiate their first collective agreement. The decision is enforceable and Amazon will be legally required to come to the bargaining table.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0First and foremost, this is a great victory for the men and women from Latin America, Chad, the Maghreb and Asia who were not afraid to stand up for their rights,\u00a0\u00bb says CSN President Caroline Senneville. \u00ab\u00a0Over the past few months, Amazon has pulled out all the stops to block our unionization campaign, flooding the workplace with scaremongering messages. DXT4 workers have given us all a lesson in courage. Of course, we hope it spreads.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
On April 19, the CSN filed an application with the ALT to represent the 200 employees at Amazon\u2019s DXT4 warehouse on Ernest-Cormier St. in Laval. In the preceding weeks, many workers had signed union cards.<\/p>\n
Amazon workers cite many reasons for dissatisfaction with their working conditions: the frenetic pace of work, woefully inadequate health and safety measures, and wages well below the norm at warehouses and fulfillment centres in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n
Amazon plans to appeal<\/strong><\/p>\n On May 6, even before the ALT decision, Amazon’s recently retained lawyers announced they intend to challenge the constitutionality of section 28 of the Qu\u00e9bec Labour Code. In a letter to the ALT, the CSN and the Attorney General, Amazon claims that the ALT’s authority to certify a union as the workers\u2019 representative is contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it violates the workers\u2019 right to freedom of association by potentially depriving them of the right to choose their representatives!<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0It’s been clear from the outset: Amazon has never wanted to abide by the legal framework governing labour relations in Qu\u00e9bec,\u201d says Caroline Senneville. \u201cNow, Amazon is actually asking for the Labour Code to be suspended while it clogs the courts<\/p>\n with motions in a last-ditch effort to prevent its employees from joining together to improve their lot. But an American multinational can’t come in and dictate our laws. We have full confidence in our judicial system and have no doubt that it will find that our Labour Code is consistent with the Charter, no matter what Amazon says.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n In the coming days, the union will hold its first general assembly to adopt its constitution and bylaws and elect its representatives. It will then launch a consultation with its members to prepare its list of demands. Under the Qu\u00e9bec Labour Code, Amazon will be legally required to negotiate.<\/p>\n More information on the drive to organize Amazon workers in Qu\u00e9bec: https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/english\/<\/p>\n Founded in 1921, the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration des syndicats nationaux (CSN) represents 330,000 workers in the public and private sectors in all regions of Qu\u00e9bec and across Canada.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Information<\/strong><\/p>\n Fran\u00e7ois L\u2019\u00c9cuyer After conducting an investigation pursuant to the Labour Code, the ALT determined that a majority of employees at the DXT4 warehouse had chosen to join the union in order to negotiate their first collective agreement. The decision is enforceable and Amazon will be legally required to come to the bargaining table. \u00ab\u00a0First and foremost, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","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\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesyndiquer.org\/mawu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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