About 240 Amazon workers at a company warehouse in Laval, a Montreal suburb, unionized in May, becoming the first of the tech company’s Canadian warehouses to do so. Amazon challenged the union’s right to represent the workers but lost at a provincial labor tribunal in October.

Amazon has announced plans to close all of its Quebec facilities, laying off 1,700 permanent employees, months after workers in Laval, Que., made history by unionizing. Experts say the move could prompt legal challenges under Quebec labour laws.

National CP – Amazon Canada announced they will be closing all seven of their warehouses in Quebec, resulting in a staff layoff over the next two months. The decision came following a difficult relationship between Amazon and unionized labour workers in Laval, Que.