Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

quote [ Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos have been facing criticism for its pay disparity.
The new minimum wage will benefit more than 250,000 Amazon employees — including part-time and temporary employees — and 100,000 seasonal employees. ]

And that criticism came from one guy in particular...Thanks Bernie.

The Temp raise was a no brainer as temporary worker are going to be harder to get due to full employment.


Bernie Sanders
‏Verified account @SenSanders
22m22 minutes ago

Bernie Sanders Retweeted The Associated Press

What Mr. Bezos has done today is not only enormously important for Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be a shot heard around the world. I urge corporate leaders around the country to follow Mr. Bezos' lead.
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[by bbqkink@3:13pmGMT]

Comments

steele said @ 3:35pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:3]
Now ask for $20. #Unionize
2345 said @ 1:28am GMT on 18th Jan [Score:-1 Boring]
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zarathustra said @ 1:05am GMT on 19th Jan [Score:-1]
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2345 said[1] @ 1:48pm GMT on 19th Jan [Score:-3]
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steele said @ 9:08pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:3]
captainstubing said @ 9:13pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Hyatt hates hate. Hates it.
arrowhen said @ 9:46pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Haters gonna hate, not gonna Hyatt.
damnit said @ 11:27pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Didn’t work out so much for hate groups back in August when they scheduled their sad march at the same time as Otakon weekend.
0123 said @ 10:06pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:-4 Boring]
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steele said @ 3:40pm GMT on 2nd Oct
cb361 said @ 4:48pm GMT on 2nd Oct
My CNBC clickbait ads on the article:

The Simplest Trick To Check If Banks Owe You £1000s
They don't. Not much of a trick, really.

Meet single women near Uxbridge
WTH? I don't even know where Uxbridge is.

Language expert shares the secret to learning a language in 20 mins a day
You can't. Not much of a secret, really.

Men: How to dress well without trying…
Ha ha! By clicking on the link, you're already trying, sucker.
Hugh E. said @ 5:37pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Meet single women near Uxbridge is funny in a Latin-prefix kind of way which probably is by definition not really funny.
cb361 said @ 7:22pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Well, there's the Latin grammar bit in Life of Brian, which my father thought was especially funny because it was so true.
moriati said @ 7:42pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Right, conjugate the verb 'to think' ...
arrowhen said @ 7:45pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Don't waste 20 minutes learning a language; you can communicate in any language by simply speaking English louder.
mechanical contrivance said @ 8:27pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:1 Insightful]
Fists are the universal language.
conservativeb361 said @ 7:32pm GMT on 2nd Oct
We'll see if all those bleeding-heart liberals are happy when they bankrupt Amazon and all those oh-so-poor workers are thrown onto the streets!
bbqkink said @ 8:04pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Bankrupt a Trillion dollar business by paying a couple bucks more an hour to your employees...not hardly.
Aynlosaur said @ 8:14pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Think how much more valuable Amazon stock would be if, instead of greedily asking to be paid for what their labor was worth, workers just freely gave labor according to their abilities to suit the needs of Amazon.

Communism is the new Capitalism!
2345 said[1] @ 5:40pm GMT on 23rd Mar [Score:-2]
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0123 said[1] @ 10:14pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:-4 Boring]
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