Unionized workers in comparable factory jobs in the province make between $26 and $30 an hour, he said. “Here … with unionization, employers don’t have a say.”īergeron-Cyr said workers reached out to his labour federation earlier in April and launched an organizing drive, in part, for higher wages, which he said hover around $17 or $18 an hour. “Amazon comes here … but they have an old American way of doing things where the employer has more leverage,” Paré said. Amazon’s approach, he added, reflects an American mentality that won’t fly in Quebec. “It’s a question of balance,” Paré said in a recent interview. And employees must have the option of receiving or not receiving the employer’s messages about unions.įrédéric Paré, a professor of labour rights at Université du Québec à Montreal, says Amazon’s strategy of posting notices in the break room and sending text messages “could be problematic” if it becomes overwhelming. It cannot use its authority to induce employees to adopt its views.
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Under Quebec’s Labour Code, an employer has free speech rights but is not allowed to interfere with a unionization campaign, nor is it allowed to issue threats or promises. “It is your fundamental right to sign or to say, ‘No, thank you,’ or ‘I am not interested,’” the text messages say. The company has sent text messages - also viewed by The Canadian Press - to employees’ personal phones, telling them they have the right to decide whether to sign a union card or an online petition. “We do not believe that we need a third party between us.” “We encourage you to speak for yourself,” the posters say. Photos viewed by The Canadian Press of the Montreal warehouse’s employee break room show posters plastered on each of the transparent walls that divide the dining tables. “This American company needs to respect Quebec labour laws.” “It’s intimidation,” Bergeron-Cyr said in a recent interview. Federation vice-president David Bergeron-Cyr says Amazon’s anti-union messaging is “omnipresent” at the warehouse. The Confédérations des syndicats nationaux said its legal department sent the company two lawyer’s letters - on May 20 and June 2 - over alleged breaches of labour rights. Aaron Paul is Aaron Paul - intense, swaggery, serviceable.MONTREAL - A major labour union in Quebec is calling recent action by the management of an Amazon warehouse in Montreal “tactics of intimidation and harassment” that interfere with a recently launched unionization campaign. Martin's monologue about feeling humiliated felt both emotionally and physically painful, as reflected in Brosnan's taut jaw and gritted teeth. Pierce Brosnan - not usually lauded for his acting - plays the aging playboy with sleaze yet gravitas. Toni Collette is also brilliantly reserved and makes maternal instinct look like a matter of course. I love that scene when Jess comes out of the hospital in her open-backed gown - all cheeky bravado (literally and figuratively), striking a rockstar pose, then all hot, snotty, mascara-streaked mess as she tries to explain away her accidental overdose. The scene stealer for me was Imogen Poots, an ingénue with an unfortunate name but a face that is jubilant one second and numbly crestfallen the next. I didn't like Nick Hornby's book due to its multiple narrators schtick, but the cinematic treatment only switches once per character and at very opportune spots too so that each person's reasons for committing suicide is evenly plotted out. I still do not really comprehend the message it was trying to send out, and for that, I strongly disliked this film. In the end, "A Long Way Down" is a tonally jumbled film with a great cast. Giving backstories of each character set after the main events of this film was a very odd decision, as you kind of started to see exactly what was going to happen to everyone before it actually did. This film didn't even work as a showcase for these actors, because the script is so simply written that I did not care what they were saying.
It never really reaches either mark, and it left me more puzzled than anything by the end. The plot is ridiculous enough for one person, even two, but four? This outlandish and risky topic is turned into a tonally weird film that is both supposed to be taken seriously, while also trying to be funny.
As they all share different reasons for wanting to kill themselves, they decide to make a pact to wait and see if they still want to on Valentine's Day. Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, and Imogen Poots all lead this film as four strangers meet on a rooftop on New Years Eve. Wasting a talented cast on a terribly coincidental plot that never works for a second is a damn shame.
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