E-commerce giant Amazon is cutting 88 jobs in Texas as the company winds down its contract with its janitorial and facility maintenance company, GDI Integrated Facility Services.
Forty-four workers at Amazon’s 500,000 square-foot Dallas facility at 33333 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway and 44 employees at the 600,000 square-foot Coppell facility, at 944 West Sandy Lake Road, will be laid off on March 5, according to a WARN letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.
Texas facilities won’t be the only ones affected. The job cuts impact 1,867 workers in 10 states.
The Seattle-based online retailer has an annual revenue of over $500 billion and employs more than a million workers at its 185 fulfillment centers across the world.
Amazon and GDI did not respond to an interview request from The Dallas Morning News. However, the company told The News over email that Amazon decided to quit working with GDI after a recent evaluation.
“As part of our regular course of business, we evaluate our vendor partners based on a number of factors and make changes to meet our business needs,” Amazon spokesperson Sam Stephenson said. “As the result of a recent review, we’re changing janitorial vendors.”
Workers from Montreal, Canada-based GDI Services will have the opportunity for future employment with whichever company Amazon chooses to be its new facility services vendor, Amazon said. The affected employees are not represented by a union and do not have bumping rights.
