Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Joe Bongiorno
Publication Date: February 15, 2025 - 17:54
Demonstrators accuse Amazon of union-busting at rally in Montreal, call for boycott
February 15, 2025
Demonstrators gathered in Montreal Saturday to protest Amazon’s decision to shutter its seven warehouses in Quebec and lay off workers, including at what was Canada’s only unionized Amazon facility. Waving flags and holding anti-Amazon placards, protesters, including some former Amazon employees, marched up the snow-blanketed streets. Félix Trudeau, who represented the now laid-off workers at the unionized warehouse in Laval, Que., urged the public to take a stand against the company.
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