• Amazon raises the US worker min wage to $15 an hour.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/amazon-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-all-us-employees.html They were probably scared shitless with the welfare bill.
Now where's the compensation for all the money you failed to pay them before the minimum wage, bezos?
I can't imagine not getting paid that much working at a place like that. I put fucking twinkies in a box and I still get paid more than their minimum.
I'm hoping this will encourage competitive companies to increase their wage as well. UPS in my state just raised the starting pay to $13.40 for part time employees. There's a massive Amazon hub nearby that is constantly poaching workers, maybe this could spur UPS to match Amazon's pay.
Another feather in the cap of the union movement.
Bezos is feeling the Bern
While this is a good short term move, the matter of fact is the wage in the future can eventually stagnate again. There really should be push for reforms that adjust minimum wage for inflation and tax companies for welfare benefits their employees receive, regardless if they've raised it for now.
so Walmart is next, right?
Push the bill through, I want to see these welfare queens squeal in bloodied rage.
Its in the article, they are raising theirs to a paltry 11 an hour.
Naturally
God, if only.
The UPS here in my Houston area is being pretty scummy by offering the Union a contract that only bumps up the starting pay instead of a full 2 dollar raise, raising conflicts between those who have spent some years working there to get at least 13 dollars feeling that their time there was wasted, and new hires who are itching to make some more money. They try to pull in votes by selling the 2 dollar raise without mentioning the rest of the contract, like moving the drivers in to work in the warehouse and pushing us out of our work.
I don't know why this topic doesn't have more celebration in it aside from winner ratings This is huge and something I never thought would happen, especially under the current administration.
I love how a socialists idea ends up being how money ends up "Trickling down", and the establishment republican take on it would have ended up causing it to just trickle up If you want money to truly 'trickle down', make companies pay for their employees welfare
Yep, regulations exist for a reason. Why would a completely free market ever consider the little guy unless absolutely forced to? Literally antithetical to the goal of capitalism - get as much money as possible in every way you're allowed to.
Free market choices like this fall squarely in the purvue of a capitalist system. No one made them to do this beyond public pressure.
Oh hell yeah! Even at Whole Foods im gettin a raise!
How much? (Also WF employee here)
15?
Idk, I haven't heard anything from my store leadership about it, which is why I asked.
What's this welfare bill everyone is mentioning? I don't see a thread for it.
https://forum.facepunch.com/f/pd/btqcz/Bernie-Sanders-Anti-Amazon-Bill-Is-an-Indictment-of-the-Media-Too/1/ Would have made it so that companies are taxed 100% of the expenses the government uses for welfare, so if an Amazon worker needs 1,000 dollars in assistance they would tax Amazon 1,000 dollars. I seriously doubt the turtle cunt would let it on the floor but it's a nice sentiment.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers such as Amazon, Walmart and McDonald’s to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their employees Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sand..
Damn, even if it doesn't pass, that's a nice gesture to scare companies that don't pay their workers properly.
Thing is if the democrats take it and Bernie gets enough support, they could push it through.
Team Leader told me today that Whole friends were raising everyone to $15 on November 1st. Apparently they weren’t told anything until the day the statement was released to the public.
that's some convenient logic. were the 5 day/40 hour work weeks simply free market choices? annual leave provisions and contracts?
except the unions don't exist and they didn't achieve this through organization, so now people might just ignore the other issues amazon has like unusually high worker accidents or the excessive amounts of security paranoia they put their workers through or their shipping meteric system, or their management routinely misfiling paperwork and costing employees large amounts of bonuses and even just normal pay. amazon still needs unions because they will give them this one time raise and people will think they're suddenly a good company.
Inform me. Welfare queens? Was there a legal loophole involving welfare they were taking advantage of or just a moral one?
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