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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

Even Amazon can get squeezed by political pressure and a tight labor market. The online giant on Tuesday said it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all of its United States workers.

It said the pay increase would include part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies. The company said it would also lobby Washington to raise the federal minimum wage.

Amazon said the new wages would apply to more than 250,000 Amazon employees, including those at the grocery chain Whole Foods, as well as the more than 100,000 seasonal employees it will hire for the holiday season. It goes into effect on Nov. 1.

The company had previously said the average hourly wage, including stock and incentive bonuses, for a full-time workers at the fulfillment centers was more than $15 an hour, but it had not disclosed pay for part-time and contract workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; economy; salary
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1 posted on 10/02/2018 7:52:00 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Wow.


2 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)
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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.


3 posted on 10/02/2018 7:53:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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4 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)
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Good. If that’s what they want to do with THEIR money, fine....................


5 posted on 10/02/2018 7:55:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: Theoria

Based on what I’ve heard from people with inside knowledge, Amazon treats its workers like p!ss.


6 posted on 10/02/2018 7:55:51 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Theoria

Guess I’ll be paying more for my Prime subscription, as well as for Amazon products in general.


7 posted on 10/02/2018 7:56:53 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Theoria

it’s showing too...

Orders are now taking 2-3 days to leave the warehouse...

ebay is faster now-a-days.


8 posted on 10/02/2018 7:58:34 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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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.


9 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.)
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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.


10 posted on 10/02/2018 8:00:32 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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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.


11 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.)
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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.


12 posted on 10/02/2018 8:03:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: thefactor

You will be, $20 more a year. I wondered why it was going up. That’s quite a leap.


13 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)
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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 ...

14 posted on 10/02/2018 8:07:49 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Congrats. Elevate the legs at night. Tiger Balm, bengay to help.


15 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)
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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.

16 posted on 10/02/2018 8:11:28 AM PDT by chiller (Race is irrelevant in these United States; just shades of skin color)
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To: texas booster

4 hours per shift and kind management standing behind us with a stop watch.

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Nickolai. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.


17 posted on 10/02/2018 8:11:51 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Theoria

if my annual prime subscription goes up next year, I’ll be pissed.


18 posted on 10/02/2018 8:13:51 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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Amazon stock is up over 65% ytd. Not bad.


19 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)
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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.

20 posted on 10/02/2018 8:19:22 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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