Amazon raises the US worker min wage to $15 an hour.
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who's working 5 day 40 hour weeks? I haven't worked a 40 hour week all year and now am up to 6 days on rotation.
I'm working more like 6 day 50 hour weeks. Primarily because I'm not career yet and USPS doesn't want to pay career employees overtime.
Related to the article, remember when Amazon bought a bunch of vans and it didn't seem like enough to make a dent in deliveries?
Yeah, they're renting U-Haul vans to make up for that.
those vans are for their seemingly shady delivery franchise program which dictates how much you make because everything is already fixed prices and dictates you work 12 hours/ 6 days a week.
That explains why they have to resort to pissing in bottles and shitting in driveways.
Amazon, Walmart and etc pay dangerously low wages and also do things like strategically hire/fire/rehire to avoid giving promised full time positions.
They're bottom line is propped up by the fact their workers often require welfare. Its a well known tactic that Walmart pioneered. McDonalds has even recieved flak for trying to help budget minimum wage pay to afford an 'American Lifestyle' which didn't match reality at all.
but you're your own boss!*
https://logistics.amazon.com/marketing/opportunity
a lot of people? I'm sorry that you don't and that must be rough but the 8 hour day/40 hour week is incredibly common.
Sadly I work for Walmart atm, they raised the starting wage to 11 back in February this year, however they have been increasing wages every year since 2016 as they 'restructure'. I'm confident early next year in January or February we will hear something similar from Walmart (prob raising it to $12 at least to keep pace with target) or otherwise I can see a lot of people jumping ship to work for Amazon.
Naturally when this does happen, expect even more Walmarts and Sam's clubs to close down, along with Walmart laying off even more employees to maintain the profit margins for the people at the top of the chain.
its more a critique that the gig economy and a lot of jobs these days demand more than 40 hours a week regularly and a lot don't pay overtime at all because of loopholes.
I wonder what Amazon's real motives are behind this.
I see it as a face-saving measure because Sanders has been on Bezos' nuts for a long time.
Jeff looks seriously unhealthy in that picture.
not having another black friday strike like last year
There's nothing "convenient" about. Free market capitalism literally includes this type of behavior. Public pressure, which translates to a lower long term outlook, is a totally legitimate force.
If all the job options the average joe has are bad, he will take a bad job just to feed himself, and his family. If that person has a family, they do not have the luxury of not taking a job to apply public pressure to get better wages 6 months or longer down the road.
If corporations get larger, there's less competition in small areas for jobs, more and more corporate influence on the local government(see the tax breaks states are offering Amazon over HQ2, something no economic report really supports as increasing the value the city gets from the business), it's just a vicious circle being led by the corporate cheerleaders.
Free market, regulation, I don't really give a fuck, this is unsustainable as a whole, and needs to be seriously re-examined.
More darkly, they could be applying pressure to smaller bushiness by trying to drive wages because historically its been small businesses that get stampeded over when a corporation fights for 'worker's rights'.
Hell, you can see the steep fucking decline of small buisness investments, its basically fallen like a logarithmic function with no going back up and a lot of people tout small companies being the best way to hire people once automation takes over(because we desperately need automation).
Seems like it was an attempt at a PR bait and switch.
Amazon warehouse workers will lose stock awards as minimum wage ..
"The confirmation follows multiple reports on Wednesday that some of Amazon's warehouse employees say they will make less as a result of this change. The Guardian said warehouse
workers currently receive one Amazon share (worth $1,959) at the end of every year, on top of another single share reward every five years. Yahoo News noted that warehouse workers
can earn up to 8 percent of their monthly income every month, which could be as much as $3,000 a year for some workers. Workers were notified of the change on Wednesday,
according to Bloomberg.
To be fair though I wouldn't dream of working at Amazon for a full year with how draconian it is, I'd rather take the $15 an hour while passing the time waiting for better employers to call me then rotate out. A full year just sounds like a soul crushing experience.
I assume this is why they did it as well, keep people rotating in and out so the seniority can't effectively unionize.
Yup. Heard about this from a close friend who works at the Amazon warehouse. Get the headline then resume scumbaggery.
I just take phone-calls to walk people through how to unplug shit/plug it back in, and I'm still paid $12/hr., is/was that more than what Amazon was paying?!
Amazon paid 14 bucks an hour.
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