Wow.
Good. If that’s what they want to do with THEIR money, fine....................
Based on what I’ve heard from people with inside knowledge, Amazon treats its workers like p!ss.
Guess I’ll be paying more for my Prime subscription, as well as for Amazon products in general.
it’s showing too...
Orders are now taking 2-3 days to leave the warehouse...
ebay is faster now-a-days.
It said the pay increase would include part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies.
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This means they’ll be hiring more contract workers.
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 ...
if my annual prime subscription goes up next year, I’ll be pissed.
And now look for prices of all things Amazon to go up to cover it.
They were close to $15/hr already?
BTW ..why didn’t they do it during lord obama’s reign?
This will be interesting. In the small KY town where I live, if you make $16 an hour you are making good money. Most people work for $10 or less.
But we have the oldest (or perhaps second oldest) Amazon fulfilment center in the US here. They are constantly looking for people. But they only pay around $10. This would be huge. Who doesn’t want a 50% pay increase.
Amazon will cut their hours to make up the cost.
You know they will.
It’s all a bunch of smoke and mirrors. What they gave in wages, they took back in bonuses and stock awards.Their compensation package is essentially the same.
No comments from the NY Times on how many benefits will be cut or how many workers will be replaced by robots?