$1 million in back pay? Amazon unlawfully withheld 2025 pay hike from workers at unionized YVR2 fulfillment centre
The B.C. Labour Relations Board (BCLRB) has ruled that Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services ULC violated the Labour Relations Code by withholding a 2025 wage increase from workers at its unionised YVR2 fulfilment centre in Delta, while granting the same increase at its other facilities in the Metro Vancouver region.
In a Feb. 13, 2026, bottom-line decision, BCLRB Vice-Chair Jonathan Hanvelt allowed an application by Unifor Local 114 and found the company breached section 45(1)(b) of the Code when it decided not to apply the pay increase at YVR2.
“I declare that the Employer contravened Section 45(1)(b) of the Code,” Hanvelt wrote in the decision letter. He ordered that Amazon “provide employees at YVR2 with the same pay increases as those implemented at the other sites in the YVR node…retroactive to the date on which the Employer implemented the 2025 pay increases at the other YVR node sites.”
Implementation of the remedial order is stayed until the Board issues full written reasons. Hanvelt also reserved on other remedies sought by the union pending completion of the evidentiary hearing.
The complaint stems from Amazon’s decision not to apply a pay increase at YVR2 that was extended to its other operations in the YVR node, prompting Unifor to allege multiple breaches of the Labour Relations Code. The parties agreed that the section 45 issue would be treated as...
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