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Amazon to Raise Minimum Hourly Wage to $15 for All U.S. Workers
The New York Times ^
| Oct 02 2018
| Karen Weise
Posted on 10/02/2018 7:52:00 AM PDT by Theoria
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:52:00 AM PDT
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Theoria
To: Theoria
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:52:11 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
The company said it would also lobby Washington to raise the federal minimum wage.
But of course. Proves the point that companies don't really care what they are paying for labor, so long as their competition is not paying less.
To: Theoria
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:53:22 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
Good. If that’s what they want to do with THEIR money, fine....................
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:55:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
To: Theoria
Based on what I’ve heard from people with inside knowledge, Amazon treats its workers like p!ss.
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:55:51 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
To: Theoria
Guess I’ll be paying more for my Prime subscription, as well as for Amazon products in general.
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:56:53 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Theoria
it’s showing too...
Orders are now taking 2-3 days to leave the warehouse...
ebay is faster now-a-days.
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:58:34 AM PDT
by
cableguymn
(We need a redneck in the white house....)
To: Theoria
It said the pay increase would include part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies.
...
This means they’ll be hiring more contract workers.
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posted on
10/02/2018 7:59:30 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Correct. I want the deportation of illegals and a strong economy to force up wages for our lower tier.
Let employers be forced to be creative in ways that they provide on-the-job training and appealing working conditions.
If Democrats manufacturing votes and employers on the cheap labor express hadn’t combined to buy off our government, we’d have something like that already.
To: Buckeye McFrog
I was going to say something similar. The goal is to price competitors out of the market in terms of labor costs, not to do something nice for their own workers. To the extent that Amazon doesn’t want to pay certain workers $15 per hour, they will subcontract that work to another company. Its all a hypocritical game.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:00:47 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Real advantage for Amazon is that raising minimum wages makes it that much harder for any start-up outfit to really get rolling and challenge their market position.
We have not had a “free market” in this country since business first discovered it could go to Washington and bribe them to slant the playing field.
To: thefactor
You will be, $20 more a year. I wondered why it was going up. That’s quite a leap.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:06:04 AM PDT
by
gattaca
("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
To: Theoria
I will let you know how it goes. I got hired to be one of the Christmas workers for the next 89 days. In a warehouse in Wilmer Hutchins as a sorter.
Pay increase starts next month, to give time for slackers to quit.
Nearly 60, in average health, I expect to be very sore for the next month.
Not concerned with the AMAbuse, since I worked as a sorter for UPS in 1979. 4 hours per shift and kind management standing behind us with a stop watch.
Oh, wait ... that was 40 years ago ...
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:07:49 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: texas booster
Congrats. Elevate the legs at night. Tiger Balm, bengay to help.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:10:06 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Amazon can afford it, others.... not so much. This may put some of their competition out of business partially because they'll lose employees to the higher paying Amazon, or struggle to pay $15 per hour even though they can't afford it.
Amazon also has an employee revolt of sorts ongoing, so this helps to solve that, too.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:11:28 AM PDT
by
chiller
(Race is irrelevant in these United States; just shades of skin color)
To: texas booster
4 hours per shift and kind management standing behind us with a stop watch.
~~~
Nickolai. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:11:51 AM PDT
by
z3n
To: Theoria
if my annual prime subscription goes up next year, I’ll be pissed.
To: JohnBrowdie
Amazon stock is up over 65% ytd. Not bad.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:17:05 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
Thanks. Gotta find a way to pay for self employed health insurance.
Wifey hopes that 4 hours a day of exercise helps by blood sugar and my waistline.
Glad to know that she still cares how I look.
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posted on
10/02/2018 8:19:22 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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