Amazon ceasing operations in Quebec

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If it actually is because of the union, good for them. I can't stand those leeches.

www.ctvnews.ca

Amazon closing all Quebec warehouses, cutting jobs

Online retail giant Amazon is closing all its warehouses in Quebec, a spokesperson confirmed to CTV News. The company says it will cease operations over the next two months in various centres and facilities.
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Amazon to close all 7 Quebec warehouses, say it’s not union based | Globalnews.ca

The decision comes amid strained labour relations with unionized employees at the multinational's warehouse in Laval, Quebec.
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Amazon isn't exactly ceasing operations in quebec. They are closing all warehouses and laying off all employees. Consumers can still buy from Amazon and it will be delivered by third party companies.
 
WOW. Crazy.
 
I'm guessing they will keep the warehouses and stock and just outsource third party company to operate it.

Heck they may even spin off their own third party and hire themselves
 
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jc100 said:
People don't like unions until they really need one.

If a company treated their staff with respect there would be no need for them.
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Like I said, in my experience the ones who need one are the ones who should never have been there in the first place. I don't know a single person (that I respect) who has anything good to say about their union.
 
jc100 said:
People don't like unions until they really need one.

If a company treated their staff with respect there would be no need for them.

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There was a time long ago when unions served a purpose, before labor laws, min wage and osha etc. Nowadays all they do is protect deadbeat employees with money they take from the good employees.
 
Relax said:
Good for Amazon. I can't stand unions. They've done nothing but cause problems for my family and friends. The only people they actually benefited were the ones who should have been fired.
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If you EVER set foot in an Amazon warehouse or worked there for a day you'd understand why this is such an incredibly ridiculous position to take.

Amazon treats their employees like numbers in every sense of the word. You are a number. Not a person. Your numbers must achieve their productivity numbers, those numbers of which are often insanely unrealistic and don't even allow you to do things like go take a piss without being penalized for idle or unproductive time.

You have no idea. If ANY workplace needs unions, it's shitholes like Amazon.

Heck, even us drivers are treated like animals when we are there. Last week I delivered to one of their warehouses - the person you talk to at the "security kiosk" isn't even in Canada (they had no idea what "Quebec" meant when they asked for my license plate, I **** you not she asked me in a thick southern accent "is that a State?") then you get jammed into a tiny cage (literally) at the man door while they decide to let you in or not (which the computer is the arbiter of), and then the amployees are like automatons, needing to follow "procedures" about how to perform their job, which they need to dictate to us guys about how to perform tasks like opening a door. It's laughable.

Its no wonder their employees feel like they need a union.

jc100 said:
People don't like unions until they really need one.

If a company treated their staff with respect there would be no need for them.
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I'm constantly amazed by the number of people you can find online that trash unions in one breath, and then you read some of their other threads (ie: Reddit) you find them weeks earlier or weeks later crying or moaning about their pay being ******, they have no benefits so they can't afford medications (or even a doctors visit, USA), they can't get time off, and that their jobs just generally suck ass.

But apparently a lot of people also love stepping on their own ***** to make sure their bosses get another Porche at the end of the year, and that the corporate CEO's can get a second yacht.
 
I've had to make use of union lawyers a few times over the years.

I was told I couldn't work two (non competing) jobs years back when I was on contract and earning way way less than I am now in what was deemed "restraint of trade". The person who made that order had to rescind it and apologize. Without the union I'd have had to suck it up and live off peanuts.

There have been other times too.

Like I say. I see why some people don't like unions but that's up until the point you really need one.





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jc100 said:
Like I say. I see why some people don't like unions but that's up until the point you really need one.
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Like I said, there are a lot of people who seem more than willing to put themselves in a worse employment situation all around simply because "unions bad". Then they're not happy with being voluntold to work a weekend out of nowhere, or get shift changes they don't like, or they get paid like crap, etc etc etc. I don't get it.

If you work for a great employer who treats you well, pays you well, and respects you, awesome, you don't need a union.

But Amazon is NOT one of those places.

You are a number.
Shut your pie hole and be the automaton you were instructed to be.
Work.
Do not stop.
We see you stopped to use the restroom, your idle time exceede standards, your performance review meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 9AM.

ToSlow said:
Unless you're a manager that has to deal with one
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Not all unions are bad unions.

And companies like to complain about unions because it makes some things inconvenient for them sometimes of course, when they could otherwise run roughshod over the employees with near impunity, pesky labour standards aside, which we all know in many cases are **** to begin with.

But yes, let's make sure the CEO gets another Lambo.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Like I said, there are a lot of people who seem more than willing to put themselves in a worse employment situation all around simply because "unions bad". Then they're not happy with being voluntold to work a weekend out of nowhere, or get shift changes they don't like, or they get paid like crap, etc etc etc. I don't get it.

If you work for a great employer who treats you well, pays you well, and respects you, awesome, you don't need a union.

But Amazon is NOT one of those places.

You are a number.
Shut your pie hole and be the automaton you were instructed to be.
Work.
Do not stop.
We see you stopped to use the restroom, your idle time exceede standards, your performance review meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 9AM.



Not all unions are bad unions.

And companies like to complain about unions because it makes some things inconvenient for them sometimes of course, when they could otherwise run roughshod over the employees with near impunity, pesky labour standards aside, which we all know in many cases are **** to begin with.

But yes, let's make sure the CEO gets another Lambo.
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How about unions allow you to weed out the bad actors? they would be a good time. when dealing with a union it takes a long time to get someone out the door
 
PrivatePilot said:
Like I said, there are a lot of people who seem more than willing to put themselves in a worse employment situation all around simply because "unions bad". Then they're not happy with being voluntold to work a weekend out of nowhere, or get shift changes they don't like, or they get paid like crap, etc etc etc. I don't get it.

If you work for a great employer who treats you well, pays you well, and respects you, awesome, you don't need a union.

But Amazon is NOT one of those places.

You are a number.
Shut your pie hole and be the automaton you were instructed to be.
Work.
Do not stop.
We see you stopped to use the restroom, your idle time exceede standards, your performance review meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 9AM.



Not all unions are bad unions.

And companies like to complain about unions because it makes some things inconvenient for them sometimes of course, when they could otherwise run roughshod over the employees with near impunity, pesky labour standards aside, which we all know in many cases are **** to begin with.

But yes, let's make sure the CEO gets another Lambo.
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I have been in a union the main thing it did was make sure ambition was kept to a minimum and that the bad workers ran the show. You may be a better employee but bob started first so he gets a raise. Seniority is such bs and keeps decent workers at the bottom.

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