Just how far will Amazon go to throttle unions? The corporate behemoth, valued at a staggering $2.47 trillion, is notorious for its union-busting. Amazon workers at the massive JFK8 warehouse voted for their union in 2022,
The online retail giant said the move was not linked to recent unionization efforts by workers in the Canadian province.
Terrorism is defined as an act of violence, usually harming innocents, that is motivated by a political or ideological goal. By that standard, write economist Jim Stanford, Amazon’s decision to shut all seven of its warehouses (euphemistically called ‘fulfilment centres’) in Québec,
Amazon has announced plans to close all of its Quebec facilities, laying off 1,700 permanent employees, months after workers in Laval, Que., made history by unionizing. Experts say the move could prompt legal challenges under Quebec labour laws.
Amazon cited a need to cut costs as the main motivation behind the move, although Quebec is also home to the company's only unionized warehouse in Canada.
A controversial Utah bill originally seeking to ban public labor unions from collective bargaining is moving toward compromise.
A conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice will not participate in a pending case that will determine whether tens of thousands of public sector workers regain collective bargaining rights that were taken away by a 2011 law.
On Monday, workers at Philadelphia’s Center City Whole Foods Market voted 130–100 to be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. It marks the first time an Amazon-owned Whole Foods store has voted to unionize—and it is one of the first major union elections of the second Trump presidency.
The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, through the Brazilian Empire and the Andean Republics of the nineteenth century,
The grocery chain’s store in Philadelphia becomes the first to join a union, where workers hope to expand organizing to other outlets and across the Amazon empire.
Amazon leased its sorting, fulfilment and delivery centres in Quebec from an array of property development management and construction firms.