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Amazon starts closing Quebec warehouses as union president calls for boycott | Globalnews.ca

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Félix Trudeau , union president for the Laval, Que ., warehouse that unionized last May , says the three warehouses in the Montreal area, including his own, were closed late Friday night .

He says some workers showed up to their shifts last night only to find out the warehouses shuttered while a fourth warehouse that was expected to close in March closed earlier this week .

The company is cutting some 1,700 permanent jobs, but Quebec labour group says the number of total layoffs rises to about 4,500 when workers employed by subcontractors are factored in.

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