Normally, I'd only put up one Amazon-labor related post a month nowadays, but it infuriates me that Bezos' lawyers think that they can ignore controlling Canadian labor law -- and just "run away bride" -- while likely transferring essentially all these operations and facilities to new contractors (as well as keep selling online in Canada), solely to avoid mandatory, binding collective bargaining / arbitration, there.
Bezos seeks to keep the bulk of his profitable cash from operations flowing, while ignoring fair wages for his workforce. Damn.
And so. . . here are the highlights, from the English language version of the timeline the union has laid out, as it preps litigation:
. . .May 10, 2024 | The Administrative Labour Tribunal determines that the union represents the majority of workers at Amazon’s DXT4 warehouse. The Laval Amazon Workers Union—CSN is certified and becomes the first -- and only -- Amazon union in Canada. . . .
July 31, 2024 | Administrative Labour Tribunal Judge Henrik Ellefsen orders Amazon to remove and destroy all the anti-union posters the company has put up at its facilities, ruling that the messages “constitute warnings to employees about sensitive issues and are clearly likely to alarm them about the possible consequences of joining a union.” Judge Ellefsen also orders Amazon to pay the union $30,000 in moral and punitive damages. . . .
October 22, 2024 | The ALT rejects Amazon’s constitutional argument on the grounds that Amazon has neither the standing nor the interest to seek revocation of the certification decision. In her ruling, Judge Irène Zaïkoff dismisses Amazon’s constitutional challenge out of hand, as well as its motion for revocation of the decision to certify the DXT4 warehouse union. Soon afterwards, Amazon announces that it will appeal. . . .
January 2025 | Knowing the provisions of the Labour Code, Amazon’s lawyers agree to the union bargaining team’s suggestion that they get their house in order and agree on as many clauses as possible in order to reduce the scope of the decision of the arbitrator who will be named following the request for first collective agreement arbitration. . . .
January 22, 2025 | A final bargaining session is scheduled between Amazon and the union. In the early hours of the morning, Amazon’s lawyers inform the union negotiators that all 300 DXT4 employees have been laid off and Amazon is closing its seven warehouses and outsourcing all of its Québec operations. . . .
Yep -- there it is -- the way billionaires like Musk and Bezos treat people barely making living wages. . . is deplorable.
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