The $30 million warehouse distribution center announced last year for the township is going to be an Amazon facility, officials confirmed Tuesday. The project, referred to as Project Penguin, is at ...
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, ...
Amazon couldn’t shut down just the unionized Laval warehouse, “so the remaining option was to nuke their entire Quebec operations,” says McGill University’s Barry Eidlin.
Beyond Whole Foods, Amazon has seen other unionization efforts gain traction. Workers at a Staten Island warehouse formed Amazon’s first union in 2022 but have faced challenges in negotiating a ...