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Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

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Re: Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

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Post by nebulous1 »

I mean, they get such bad press for the way they treat their workers it only seems fair to laud them for this. Good move. They have more to do though.

I've went through a few articles on this but I didn't see any of them mention what Amazon's minimum actual pay was before this, just the federal minimum wage. Anybody know?

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Post by brianbreslin »

themoat wrote: post #5
crdoconnor wrote: post #3

A good object lesson in what happens if you unionize. Edit: Ooh, downvotes. Hi Amazon

I missed this story from earlier. Did they actually unionize? Or were they in the early stages of unionizing?

early stages of it. This was one of their key demands.

Re: Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

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Post by tyingq »

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.

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