Amazon raises its minimum wage, adds new grocery and banking benefits for employees

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• return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Grocery and banking, sounds like the old company towns that drove the people to fight back and start unions in the first place

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  • crowcore_explorer@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Amazon homes next

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    • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      burn em

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• Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s going to take a long time of something like this working well for people before they will undo all their bad press. Too many reasons to be suspicious

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• psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It includes warehouse employees, at least.

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    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are all the people who are in the warehouse employees? Are they all “full time” or whatever class of employee gets the new perks?

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  • return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A lot of people that work at Amazon are contractors

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    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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