Amazon Canada will face Quebec’s Labour Tribunal starting Friday over the closure of seven warehouses that left 1,700 workers without jobs earlier this year.

The CSN union, which represents the workers, is appealing Amazon’s decision and wants the company to pay employees one year’s salary. The union says the closures were an attempt to “eradicate” union activity , noting that sales in Quebec continued through third-party delivery instead of Amazon’s own centres.

“It is clear to us that the closure of Amazon’s warehouses was primarily intended to curb the ongoing unionization campaign and the conclusion of a first collective agreement in North America,” CSN President Caroline Senneville said in a release, as reported by CTV News.

She added, “After numerous preliminary objections and oth

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