/newsroom/taxonomy/term/5702/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-amazon-faces-teamsters-union-drive-canadian-warehouse-333677 <p>Amazon.com Inc. could be facing its first unionization battle in Canada after a Teamsters local filed for a union vote for workers at the e-commerce giant’s fulfilment centre near Edmonton. If the Alberta Labour Relations Board verifies application, all workers at the YEG 1 fulfilment centre in Nisku, Alberta, who were employed as of September 13 will be able to vote on joining the union. In order to have a union vote filing approved in Alberta, the union must demonstrate 40 per cent of workers at a given job site have signed a petition for union representation.</p> Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:44:31 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 276838 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/covid-19-and-labour-constraints-recalling-former-health-care-workers-not-enough-321447 <p>While the COVID-19 pandemic has already resulted in mass layoffs in several industries, other essential industries will instead face critical workforce shortages, according to a <a href="http://fabianlange.ca/linked_files/papers/NOWcasting.pdf">new report</a>. Social distancing, school and daycare closures, and measures to protect those people who are most at-risk limit the pool of workers firms can draw upon. How important will these constraints turn out to be, especially in essential industries?</p> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:30:44 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 206092 at /newsroom /newsroom/lisa-cohen Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:44:45 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 205543 at /newsroom /newsroom/anthony-c-masi Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23550 at /newsroom