“This is about offering the best service we can to customers in a way that’s efficient and cost effective,” Amazon spokesperson Barbara Agrait said in email on Wednesday, when asked to comment on ...

Amazon said it would close its seven warehouses in Quebec and lay off 1,700 workers in the Canadian province, less than a year after employees at one of the facilities unionized and were inching ...

like job placement resources,” Amazon spokesperson Barbara Agrait said in a statement. Agrait said the decision was made following a “recent review” of the company's operations in the province.

The battle lines have been drawn in a growing feud between Amazon and its Quebec workers as the union readies a lawsuit over ...

Amazon.com said it is closing its warehouses in Quebec and returning to a third-party delivery model, a move which the province's labor representatives called an attack on employees and the union.

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is exiting its operations in Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, a company ...

“This decision wasn’t made lightly, and we’re offering impacted employees a package that includes up to 14 weeks’ pay after facilities close and transitional benefits, like job placement resources,” ...

Amazon is expected to face legal action from a Canadian union after the company’s plan to wind down warehouse operations in ...

The online retail giant said the move was not linked to recent unionization efforts by workers in the Canadian province.

The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province — the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees — over the next two months. "Following a recent review of ...

That move will result in the company laying off 1,700 permanent workers. The facilities also employ a total of 250 temporary workers, who will also be affected. According to AFP, ...