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• Teamsters targets Amazon in Canada, attempting to organize 9 workers’ unions

  "Where we see there is a lot of support, we're going to go full steam ahead," said Christopher Monette, spokesperson for Teamsters Canada.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2021
  
• Amazon Canada set to hire 15,000 workers, increase hourly starting wage to $21.65

  Amazon also announced it will increase the starting wage for its front-line, hourly employees in Canada 27 per cent to $21.65 an hour from $17 an hour.

  Economy

  Sep 13, 2021
  
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• Amazon to offer $100 more to new U.S. hires with COVID-19 vaccination proof

  The vaccine-related incentives are also aimed at attracting workers flush with relief checks and wary of the pandemic as well as the lack of childcare facilities back to work.

  World

  May 13, 2021
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• Amazon to hire 3,500 workers in Ontario and B.C., expand office footprint

  Amazon revealed Monday that 3,000 of the jobs will be in Vancouver, where it is growing its footprint, and another 500 will be in Toronto, home of a new Amazon workspace.

  Economy

  Sep 28, 2020
• Amazon to hire 700 positions at Alberta facilities

  Amazon announced Monday it is looking to hire for more than 700 positions in Alberta as the company prepares for the launch of three new buildings.

  Economy

  Jul 6, 2020
• Amazon workers to strike on Prime Day over work conditions in Minneapolis

  The strike is a continuing push to improve pay and working conditions for the facility’s heavily East African workforce.

  Consumer

  Jul 8, 2019
• Amazon says Nisku fulfillment facility will employ 600 people when it opens next spring

  Amazon says it is on track to finish its one-million-square-foot fulfillment centre in Leduc County by spring 2020.

  Consumer

  Jun 25, 2019
• Amazon announces 2nd fulfillment centre in Alberta, this one outside Edmonton

  Amazon announced Monday it will open a new customer fulfillment centre in Leduc County which the company says will create more than 600 full-time jobs.

  Consumer

  Dec 17, 2018
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• Amazon ditches AI recruiting tool that didn’t like women

  Amazon has scrapped an AI-driven hiring tool meant to help it identify the best resumes, after specialists noticed the machine favoured men over women.

  World

  Oct 10, 2018
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• Amazon cuts jobs in Seattle as search for HQ2 location continues

  Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its consumer business in Seattle as the company shifts resources into fast-growing areas like its work on voice assistant Alexa.

  Money

  Feb 12, 2018