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亚马逊开始关闭魁北克仓库，工会主席呼吁抵制
抗议者周六暂时占领了英特尔通讯公司（Intelcom）的办公室
Joe Bongiorno · 加拿大新闻社 · 2025年2月9日
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/amazon-union-boycott-1.7454649
亚马逊在一份声明中表示，三家仓库已按计划于周六关闭，而第四家仓库则提前关闭。（Christinne Muschi/加拿大新闻社）
代表加拿大唯一一家加入工会的亚马逊仓库工人的工会表示，这家在线零售巨头已于本周开始关闭其在魁北克的七家仓库，导致数千名员工失业。
去年五月加入工会的魁北克省拉瓦尔市亚马逊仓库的工会主席费利克斯·特鲁多表示，他已确认蒙特利尔地区的三家仓库（包括他自己的仓库）已于周五深夜关闭。
特鲁多表示，一些工人周五晚上加班，却发现仓库已经关闭。他还表示，他听说位于蒙特利尔的第四家仓库本周早些时候关闭，尽管原定于3月份关闭。
然而，亚马逊在一份声明中表示，这三家仓库已按计划于周六关闭，而第四家仓库的关闭时间比原计划提前，但没有具体说明具体时间。
据魁北克劳工组织“全国工会联合会”（Confédération des syndicats nationalaux）称，该公司正在裁员近2000人，但如果将分包商雇佣的工人计算在内，总裁员人数将上升至约4500人。
代表约260名亚马逊员工的特鲁多指责这家电商巨头关闭其在该省的仓库，以惩罚其仓库员工去年5月成立工会的行为。
他呼吁抵制亚马逊，直到亚马逊重新开放其仓库或同意向所有被解雇的员工支付一年的工资和福利。
“我们希望亚马逊反工会、反魁北克的行为得到应有的惩罚。我们希望各级政府——市政、省和联邦政府——不仅停止从亚马逊采购，还应停止通过终止与亚马逊及其所有关联公司的合同来支持亚马逊的行为，”他在周六的一次采访中说道。
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周四，蒙特利尔市长瓦莱丽·普兰特在X频道上宣布，蒙特利尔市将停止在亚马逊上订购商品，“直至另行通知”。
亚马逊此前否认了关闭仓库与该省推动工会化有关的说法，并表示此举旨在为客户提供高效且经济实惠的服务。
关闭魁北克仓库意味着亚马逊将恢复到2020年之前在该省使用的商业模式，即雇用当地第三方公司进行包裹递送。
周六下午，抗议者临时占领了位于蒙特利尔安茹区的快递和包裹递送公司Intelcom的一间办公室。
抗议者之一Benoit Dumais表示，示威者希望传递一个信息，因为Intelcom在关闭其自有仓库后，将成为亚马逊在该省的主要分包商。
“我们来这里是为了谴责亚马逊，同时也揭露Intelcom即将成为分包商，而且他们的工作条件也非常恶劣，所以我们仍然秉持着廉价劳动密集型工作的逻辑，”他说道。
Intelcom回应这些指控称，该公司“一直致力于为所有员工提供灵活的工作环境和成长机会”。
蒙特利尔警方发言人Jean-Pierre Brabant表示，有20至30名示威者参加了抗议活动，没有人被捕。他表示，警方到达后不久，示威者就离开办公室，前往大楼前抗议。
特鲁多表示，抗议者将于周日在拉瓦尔前工会化的亚马逊仓库前举行抗议活动。
Amazon starts closing Quebec warehouses as union president calls for boycott
Protesters temporarily occupied Intelcom office Saturday
Félix Trudeau, union president for the Laval, Que., Amazon warehouse that unionized last May said he has confirmation that three warehouses in the Montreal area, including his own, closed late Friday night.
Some workers showed up to their late shifts Friday night only to find out the warehouses closed, Trudeau said, adding he heard that a fourth warehouse, located in Montreal, closed earlier this week despite being scheduled to shutter in March.
However Amazon said in a statement that the three facilities closed Saturday as planned, while it said the fourth location closed earlier than prescribed without specifying when.
The company is cutting nearly 2,000 jobs, but the number of total layoffs rises to about 4,500 when workers employed by subcontractors are factored in, according to Quebec labour group Confédération des syndicats nationaux.
Trudeau, who represents about 260 Amazon workers, accused the e-commerce goliath of closing its warehouses in the province to punish employees at his warehouse for unionizing last May.
He has called for a boycott until Amazon reopens its facilities or agrees to pay all its laid-off employees one year's salary with benefits.
"We want there to be consequences for Amazon's anti-union, anti-Quebec actions. We want the government at the different levels of government — municipal, provincial and federal — not only to stop buying from Amazon but to stop supporting Amazon's behaviour by cutting their contracts with Amazon and all of its affiliates," he said in an interview Saturday.
On Thursday, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced on X that the City of Montreal would cease ordering on Amazon "until further notice."
Amazon has previously dismissed the suggestion that the closures are linked to a unionization push in the province and has said they are aimed at delivering efficient and cost-effective services to customers.
The closure of the Quebec facilities will mean Amazon will revert to a business model it used in the province up until 2020, which employed local, third-party companies for package deliveries.
On Saturday afternoon, protesters temporarily occupied an office belonging to Intelcom, a courier and package delivery company, in Montreal's Anjou borough.
One of the protesters, Benoit Dumais, said demonstrators wanted to send a message because Intelcom will become a major subcontractor for Amazon in the province after closing down its own warehouses
"We were there to denounce Amazon but also expose that Intelcom is going to be the subcontractors and their working conditions are also very poor, so we're still in the same logic of very cheap labour-intensive work," he said.
Intelcom responded to the accusations by saying it "has always been committed to providing a flexible work environment and growth opportunities for all its employees."
Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant said 20 to 30 demonstrators took part and there were no arrests. The group left the offices to protest in front of the building shortly after police arrived, he said.
Trudeau said protesters will be picketing in front of the formerly unionized Amazon warehouse in Laval on Sunday.
