Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

Post by koolba » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

arjunnarayan wrote: post #68

tyingq wrote: post #7

Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, recently introduced legislation to end what he calls “corporate welfare” — and it’s pretty clear who he had in mind, since the bill was titled Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS). Bernie out-marketing AMZN is pretty funny.

Maybe some Republicans should troll Bernie back by proposing THE A rrest T he T radition of A crostics I n the N ames of D efective E rroneous R egulations ACT

Post by usermcuserface » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #7

Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, recently introduced legislation to end what he calls “corporate welfare” — and it’s pretty clear who he had in mind, since the bill was titled Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS). Bernie out-marketing AMZN is pretty funny.

Post by coldtea » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

FactolSarin wrote: post #74

tw1010 wrote: post #61

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You do realize it's probably not actually Bernie who came up with the name? (It's one of his underlings.)

First, you mean one of his staff. Mad scientists have underlings. Second, you have literally no idea how much input he had into it. He may have come up with the name himself, or he may have directed his staff to come up with something pithy that spells out "Bezos" or he may have sat around with them spitballing ideas until they came up with something good. But in the end, he was the senator who introduced it, and he…

Post by roenxi » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

Egidius wrote: post #64

chrisseaton wrote: post #55

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Maybe I've got no sense of humour, but I think that's unprofessional and something like bullying, rather than funny. Legislation should surely not target one individual by name like that?

If you pay your employees $7.25 you deserve to be made fun off at least. Jeff Bezos recently also said Amazon deserved being scrutinised. I'm not saying this is what triggered them, but sometimes you have to take a strong position in order to be listened to.

Post by Broken_Hippo » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

stirlo wrote: post #14

While this is a very welcome development it would be more impressive to see them reform their slave like fulfilment center work practises. Employees are forced to walk massive distances, have their every move tracked and are penalised for taking bathroom breaks. I doubt many people in Silicon Valley would consider $15 an hour a fair compensation for the oppressive work conditions.