Amazon raises its minimum wage, adds new grocery and banking benefits for employees
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/amazon-minimum-wage-raise-grocery-banking-benefits-added/507-c126d157-c5f1-46b3-8a21-aeea351aebb3
51 points · 10 comments · view on lemmy.world
10 Comments
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 1d
Grocery and banking, sounds like the old company towns that drove the people to fight back and start unions in the first place
crowcore_explorer@piefed.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 1d
you load sixteen tons, whattaya get? another day older and deeper in debt st. peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go i owe my soul to the company store
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 1d
Amazon homes next
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 21h
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 21h
Then they'll offer corporate housing. Soon you'll be paying them to live there out of your wages. Those will go away then you'll just be working for your necessities directly, no pay. But they'll provide food, housing, basic necessities. It'll be fine. Right? Maybe they'll setup big crops for us to harvest.
This isn't going anywhere good.
They definitely should pay their employees more, but I'd be wary of any 'good tidings' coming from Amazon in the current political climate, this seems like another step towards Technocrat/Oligarch control over the citizens disguised as something else.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 16h
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 22h
Does anyone want to do more work than me? Because I'd be curious who counts as an "employee", but not so curious as to dig.
Like, are all of the people who pick things at warehouses employees, or just a select few? Drivers, etc?
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 18h
The drivers are contractors, not employees.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
A lot of people that work at Amazon are contractors
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 7h
That's my assumption, but I have no data. And so I assume that the people that people think of when they think of "amazon employee" are actually not helped by this change.
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 7h
It includes warehouse employees, at least.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 7h
Are all the people who are in the warehouse employees? Are they all "full time" or whatever class of employee gets the new perks?