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- Canada’s largest private sector union has filed an application with the British Columbia Labor Relations Board (BCLRB) to allow Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Metro Vancouver plant employees to form a union.
- “Amazon workers seek job security, health and safety and fair wages,” he said Unifor National President Lana Payne.
- Once the BCLRB has processed your application, you may vote to unionize as long as Unifor has obtained membership cards from at least 45% of your eligible workforce. If the 55% threshold is reached, union certification is granted and work begins under a collective agreement.
- Efforts to unionize Amazon (AMZN) warehouses in Canada began in mid-2023, when Unifor began a campaign at an Amazon (AMZN) facility in New Westminster with the help of U.S. union organizer Chris Smalls. Smalls created the Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, which successfully organized the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island.
- The JFK8 warehouse, however, remains Amazon’s (AMZN) only unionized facility in the United States