At least 30 workers at Amazon’s Laval warehouse face layoffs, according to the CSN union, which calls it a “second wave” of dismissals since employees unionized last May. CSN president Caroline Senneville believes the cuts are retaliatory against unionization, while Amazon spokesperson Barbara Agrait denies wrongdoing, stating the affected workers were seasonal hires with predetermined contract end dates. Union president Félix Trudeau says the situation illustrates exactly why workers chose to unionize. The accredited union is still negotiating its first collective agreement, with further meetings planned for January.
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The union representing workers at the Amazon warehoapply in Laval declares at least 30 of them have just learned they will lose their jobs.
In a press release on Tuesday, the CSN declares it strongly condemns the dismissals, “the second wave of this kind at the DXT4 warehoapply since the unionization of its 300 employees last May.”
Although it is common in the retail world for layoffs to occur after the busy holiday season, CSN president Caroline Senneville declares she sees this as a retaliatory measure due to the unionization of these workers.
Amazon, however, denies any bad intentions and accapplys the CSN of spreading false information.
Barbara Agrait, an Amazon spokesperson, declares: “This claim is false and the CSN is being intentionally misleading. These individuals were hired as seasonal employees and their contracts included transparent conclude dates. We appreciate all the work they did to support delivering for our customers this holiday season.”
Senneville declares the union is not informed of the exact number of layoffs or the criteria for determining who is laid off. She points out, for example, that it is not necessarily the most recently hired who are laid off, but sometimes those who were hired six months ago.
The president of the Amazon Laval-CSN Workers’ Union, Félix Trudeau, declares this represents the reason employees decided to unionize.
The union, accredited last May by the Administrative Labour Tribunal, is still busy neobtainediating its first collective agreement. Other neobtainediation meetings are planned for January.
-With files from The Canadian Press
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