Posted on 10/14/2022 9:28:25 PM PDT by fluorescence
It is not just the 5 dollar raise, their worker comp insurance would go through the roof it is according to payroll, their payroll taxes that they have to match also another huge increase so the 5 dollar an hour becomes a 10 dollar an hour for Amazon you can bet that more than half of that staff are NOT WORTH any raise you can bet that the productivity sucks for more than half of them!!
Supply and demand.
Because the USA supply of low skill workers is abnormally high, wages go down. Business owners and executives hire more labor instead of automating and modernizing their systems and product line.
A normal supply of low skill labor, or a below average supply, would incentivize owners and executives to purchase labor saving devices and expert software.
The economic future has NEVER belonged to countries with the cheapest human labor.
It has always belonged to the countries with the best goods and services and the highest productivity.
Smarter negotiators would have noticed that Amazon has been scaling back operations and closing fulfillment centers all over the Country, while putting up a few new ones at the same time...
Exactly. Comp and all the rest is the real world cost. The straight dollar per hour cost over 1400 employees per year is 14.5 million. But we all know we live in the “real world”.
YOU want a $5 RAISE?
Get an education & perform a job WELL that pays more.
When critics of wages for low skill employees get to sign the FRONT of the paychecks, then I might listen to their whining.
Spot on some never get where inflation comes in it’s why Bill Gates made everyone hired at Microsoft temp employees.
KSBD - built on and around the former Norton Air Force Base.
San Bernardino and surrounding Indland Empire towns and cities have become major hosts to shipping and distribution hubs. KSBD itself is only a few miles from either the major east/west bound Interestate 10 and the north/south bound Interstate 15 but - to the good - removed from the higher traffic density of Los Angeles/Long Beach area. What does not arrive/leave the KSBD facilities by air comes/gets there by trucks.
What is hard to figure is how the city of San Bernardino touted the remake of Norton Air Force Base into a civilian transportation hub - which it has become - San Bernardino itself has no way near moved up economically, inspite of the growth of KSBD. San Bernardino has lagged in population growth, growing below the county average in the last twenty years, while growth in towns west and north of it (and south of it in Riversde County) have grown more. The same has been true for real estate values. Its like in spite of itself, San Bernardino never got its act together after Norton AFB closed.
And they’ll vote Democrat, who will create inflation, so they’ll demand another raise, and then they’ll vote Democrat, who will...
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