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Unifor launches drive to organize Amazon workers in Ontario
Unifor has launched a drive to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Ontario.
The effort aims to reach thousands of workers at warehouses across the Greater Toronto Area, with outreach planned at Amazon facilities across the province.
The union hopes to build on its success at an Amazon warehouse in Delta, British Columbia, which it unionized last year.
Unifor says rising injuries and working conditions make organizing urgent; Ontario data shows injury rates at Amazon facilities nearly tripled from 2020 to 2025.
Some workers involved in the effort have described physically demanding shifts and difficulty getting suitable work after injuries.
Amazon says it values direct relationships between workers and managers, so each person’s voice can be heard.
The drive is now underway, but the Delta union still has no enforceable collective agreement, and a group of workers there is trying to decertify it.
Unifor is launching an organizing drive for Amazon workers across Ontario, with simultaneous outreach at facilities across the province.
The union says it is responding to working conditions, including rising injury rates at Amazon facilities.
Amazon says it values direct relationships between employees and managers so every person’s voice is heard.
Unifor is seeking to build on its success unionizing an Amazon warehouse in Delta, British Columbia.
Only two Amazon warehouses are unionized, in Staten Island, New York, and Delta, and neither has an enforceable collective agreement.
- Who
- Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, and Amazon workers in Ontario.
- What
- Unifor is launching an organizing drive across Amazon facilities in Ontario.
- When
- The drive launches Wednesday; the article was published November 4, 2026.
- Where
- Amazon facilities across Ontario, including warehouses in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Why
- Unifor says the drive is urgent because of working conditions, including rising injury rates.
Unifor
Amazon
Approach to worker representation
Unifor
Unifor says workers need a union to have a say in improving working conditions.
Amazon
Amazon says it values direct relationships between teams and managers so every person’s voice is heard.
Need for unionization
Unifor
Unifor says Amazon workers need to be unionized and cites working conditions and rising injury rates.
Amazon
Amazon’s statement says direct relationships with managers allow workers’ voices to be heard.
Injury rates at Amazon facilities across Ontario nearly tripled, according to data from the province’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.
Jevorne Dickson worked at an Amazon warehouse in Bolton, Ontario.
Unifor succeeded in unionizing an Amazon facility in Delta, British Columbia.
Unifor’s Ontario organizing drive launches, with simultaneous outreach at facilities across the province.
- Union
- Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union
- Scope
- Amazon facilities across Ontario
- Injury rates
- Nearly tripled from 2020 to 2025
- Unionized Amazon warehouses
- Two: Staten Island, New York, and Delta, British Columbia
- Delta agreement
- No enforceable collective agreement yet
What people are saying
If there are workers in the world that need to be unionized right now, it is Amazon workers
They are up against one of the biggest, richest, most powerful corporations in the world and the way to counterbalance that is for them to be able to have a say in improving their own working conditions.
value in having direct relationships between teams and their managers which means every person’s voice is heard, not just a few.
I worked a 10-hour shift with a 30-minute break. You have to work fast. There were some days where I would do 30,000 to 40,000 steps … it takes a toll on your body,