Socialist Bellwether Amazon Forcing the $15 Issue

[Veer_G]

I guess Bezos can afford the ante to sit in at the New World Order Poker Game.

Hard to resist the siren calls of "But Amazon's doing it" that will surely come from the Kamala Harrises and Maxine Waters that plague us.

http://www.fox29.com/news/amazon-raising-minimum-wage-to-15-for-all-us-employees

 

[MtnCreek]

I heard that on the radio this am. We've heard stories for months about shitty amazon pay and work conditions. So amazon decides to step up and raise their min to $15. Sounds great, right? Not so much when they immediately call for Fed laws requiring everyone raise their min wage. Even more deceitful is their increased use of machines to perform the tasks these $15 / hr tards do.

 

[Veer_G]

But how else will we keep our troops supplied out there on The Malabar Front?

 

[Jefe's Dope]

Force the competition to pay more for labor while you continue to mechanize.

 

[Veer_G]

Force the competition to pay more for labor while you continue to mechanize.

Exactly. And then, when the competition has disappeared, ...

 

[EddieNFL]

I don't help him pay his employees. Over the past couple of years, Amazon has proven less and less competitive.

 

[W54/XM-388]

It's a quick cover story to help draw attention away from all the well deserved negative press they have been getting.

They say "employees"....
But did they say they would actually pay that to their "independent contractors" or "people working for a 3rd party contracting company"?

Like many big evil corporations they work hard to have as few actual legal "employees" as possible.