We HATES Kay-beck FOREVER!

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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 toward a collective bargaining agreement.

Amazon said in an email that the decision was unrelated to recent efforts to unionize and was “about offering the best service we can to customers in a way that’s efficient and cost effective.”

Barbara Agrait, an Amazon spokeswoman, said in a separate emailed statement that the decision was made after a review of operations. Amazon will create a delivery model based on third-party local small businesses, Agrait said. “This decision wasn’t made lightly,” she said, adding that Amazon will offer up to 14 weeks’ pay to affected employees.

In May, Quebec officials approved the unionization of the 300 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Laval, just north of Montreal, according to the Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux, the union representing the employees. They said that it was the first union at an Amazon warehouse in Canada, and that it would protect workers originally from Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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Good. An economically weakened Kay-beck is good for Canada!
 

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Never good when people lose jobs.

Hopefully the restructuring can move the loss of the jobs to the new structure.
 

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Good. An economically weakened Kay-beck is good for Canada!
"They said that it was the first union at an Amazon warehouse in Canada, and that it would protect workers originally from Latin America, Africa and Asia."

Jesus Christ, any actual Canadians working there or would they just not get any union protection?
 

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"They said that it was the first union at an Amazon warehouse in Canada, and that it would protect workers originally from Latin America, Africa and Asia."

Jesus Christ, any actual Canadians working there or would they just not get any union protection?
By "actual Candians," do you mean Whites?
 

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This has nothing to do with Quebec Amazon workers forming a union. Just co-incidence.
Don't be so sure. The US company I worked for shut down 3 plants in 2006. Of their 10 plants, 3 were unionized. Guess which 3 got shut down?


"The CSN, the union that represents the workers in Laval, said workers were dissatisfied with what they described as a hectic work pace, low wages and inadequate health and safety measures. Amazon has only one other unionized workforce in North America, in Staten Island, N.Y."

Let's see what happens in NY.
 

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Don't be so sure. The US company I worked for shut down 3 plants in 2006. Of their 10 plants, 3 were unionized. Guess which 3 got shut down?


"The CSN, the union that represents the workers in Laval, said workers were dissatisfied with what they described as a hectic work pace, low wages and inadequate health and safety measures. Amazon has only one other unionized workforce in North America, in Staten Island, N.Y."

Let's see what happens in NY.
My comment was slightly sarcastic.
 

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Good. An economically weakened Kay-beck is good for Canada!
It really doesn't hurt Canada. You see, Canada exists solely for the benefit of Quebec. Canada doesn't really benefit much from Quebec, if at all.

-They have a federal party that ONLY represents the province of Quebec that the Canadian taxpayer gets to help fund.
-Any Crown Corp HQ or HQ of any federally regulated industry that's located in Quebec cannot, by law, ever relocate to another province.
-If Quebec's proportion of the Canadian population drops, they're not allowed to lose any seats in Parliament while another region gains as a result. We have to add new seats which means more taxpayer money being wasted on big fat paycheques and perks for politicians .
-Quebec refuses to let pipelines pass through the province because "climate change" and yet they have pipelines feeding their fucking refining industry. In fact while they were fighting against the Eastern Flow pipeline they were building new pipeline themselves for their own needs because in Quebec the slogan is not "je me souviens", it's "Fuck Canada! But keep giving us your money."
-Quebec has a nasty history of refusing to pay its out of province medical bills. In fact several times in the past hospitals in Canada openly announced they wouldn't not take Quebec health cards as payment because they don't get paid.
-Part of the reason everything costs so much in Canada is because every goddam label has to be bi-lingual. Professional label printers charge by the word. So if the label has ingredients and directions? Ching ching ching!
-Quebec refuses to sign onto the Constitution yet uses the Constitution to get or do what it wants.
And that's just a partial list. Seriously, if Trump wants to annex Canada we'll give him Quebec. No givesies backsies either.

I also want to make clear the strong dislike I have is for the Quebec govt, the BQ and the Quebecois, NOT French-Canadians. What's the difference between a Quebecois and a French-Canadian from Quebec you ask? Simple. French-Canadians consider themselves to be Canadians first. Quebecois consider themselves to be "Quebecois" first and only. Unless they're travelling internationally, then they're "Canadians" and tarnish the good will Canadian travelers have spent decades building up.
 
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It really doesn't hurt Canada. You see, Canada exists solely for the benefit of Quebec. Canada doesn't really benefit much from Quebec, if at all.

-They have a federal party that ONLY represents the province of Quebec that the Canadian taxpayer gets to help fund.
-Any Crown Corp HQ or HQ of any federally regulated industry that's located in Quebec cannot, by law, ever relocate to another province.
-If Quebec's proportion of the Canadian population drops, they're not allowed to lose any seats in Parliament while another region gains as a result. We have to add new seats which means more taxpayer money being wasted on big fat paycheques and perks for politicians .
-Quebec refuses to let pipelines pass through the province because "climate change" and yet they have pipelines feeding their fucking refining industry. In fact while they were fighting against the Eastern Flow pipeline they were building new pipeline themselves for their own needs because in Quebec the slogan is not "je me souviens", it's "Fuck Canada! But keep giving us your money."
-Quebec has a nasty history of refusing to pay its out of province medical bills. In fact several times in the past hospitals in Canada openly announced they wouldn't not take Quebec health cards as payment because they don't get paid.
-Part of the reason everything costs so much in Canada is because every goddam label has to be bi-lingual. Professional label printers charge by the word. So if the label has ingredients and directions? Ching ching ching!
-Quebec refuses to sign onto the Constitution yet uses the Constitution to get or do what it wants.
And that's just a partial list. Seriously, if Trump wants to annex Canada we'll give him Quebec. No givesies backsies either.

I also want to make clear the strong dislike I have is for the Quebec govt, the BQ and the Quebecois, NOT French-Canadians. What's the difference between a Quebecois and a French-Canadian from Quebec you ask? Simple. French-Canadians consider themselves to be Canadians first. Quebecois consider themselves to be "Quebecois" first and only. Unless they're travelling internationally, then they're "Canadians" and tarnish the good will Canadian travelers have spent decades building up.
We could aleays pay equalization with beaver pelts.
 
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