[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

[9YearLurker]

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.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

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.

[chiller]

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.