Amazon facilities in Quebec will close in the coming weeks and 1,700 jobs will go with it. The company, which is set to outsource deliveries to smaller contractors, said the decision is due to cost savings and not he recent unionization of about 200 employees at a Laval,

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is exiting its operations in Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province—the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees —over the next two months.

Amazon laid off employees in its communications and sustainability organizations on Wednesday in the latest round of cuts at the tech giant.

The cuts follow Amazon's layoff of 200 people in its North America stores unit from earlier this month. Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is laying off employees in its communications and corporate responsibility division,