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To be fair Amazon started the "Delivery Service Provider" model in 2018 and has been expanding it since and more aggressively in the last couple of years. This isn't something specific to Quebec.
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This is true. Amazon generally has multiple 3rd parties providing drivers to delivery hubs. Basically it makes unionizing much more difficult because if only one of the 3rd parties does it they can just terminate that contract to dissuade the others from trying. You essentially need to organize all of them at once to have enough leverage to force them to actually recognize their certification. I was actually surprised to see Quebec was operating under a different model but the timing of the change is obviously suspect and I believe has a clear intent beyond operational needs.
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Amazon also basically had a license to print money (or more accurately were huge benefactors of the government's license to print money) during the pandemic. They've since been laying off 10s of thousands of employees now that the pandemic cash cow is dead. This series of totally unprecedented events isn't going to fit in with the union model of guaranteed long-term employment.
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Not sure how any of that works against unionization. If anything it’s a very strong argument for why the employees should unionize. As an employee if there’s gonna be layoffs you want to have rules in place to provide you with as much job protection as possible.