Whole Foods increases wages, then cuts hours........

[a kennedy]

In response to public pressure and increasing scrutiny over the pay of its warehouse workers, Amazon enacted a $15 minimum wage for all its employees on 1 November, including workers at grocery chain Whole Foods which it purchased in 2017.

All Whole Foods employees paid less than $15 an hour saw their wages increase to at least that, while all other team members received a $1-an-hour wage increase and team leaders received a $2-an-hour increase.

But since the wage increase, Whole Food employees have told the Guardian that they have experienced widespread cuts that have reduced schedule shifts across many stores, often negating wage gains for employees.

“My hours went from 30 to 20 a week,” said one Whole Foods employee in Illinois.

Workers interviewed for this story were reluctant to speak on the record for fear of retaliation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/06/whole-foods-amazon-cuts-minimum-wage-workers-hours-changes

[Guilded Lilly]

1. This is the common practice across the boards...

All businesses will do this routinely. The non-profit company I’ve worked for has given 7 very small increases over the last fourteen years, then will cut hours just enough to wipe out any wage advantages.

It totally sucks but we aren’t usually going to win this battle.

[RainCaster]

2. This is part of the Amazon Culture

Keep that in mind when you shop.

[trev]

8. I quit buying from Amazon three years ago.

My author friend holds Bezos in contempt.

[crazycatlady]

11. it is part of retail cultue

Management gets bonuses for trimming payroll.

[theophilus]

3. Baaaaaayzoooooooohs!!!! n/t

He's barely scraping by. Poor baby. ETR

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Hey folks,

this is just the tip of a Grocery Iceberg that is coming. Amazon is looking at buying out Ahold Company of Holland which has a couple Grocery Labels here in the states.

This will be the real Game Changer within two years.

[Sherman A1]

5. Precisely

Grocery is undergoing radical changes as is all of the Retail Sector. It is a perfect storm of changing demand, changing technologies, the impact of the leveraged buyouts from the 1980s and 1990s, the Walmartization of the business model and the recently arriving Amazon effect.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Watching for this Ahold deal,

understand they have a piece of Aldi's and that would really be game changer. The two biggee's to watch is Kroger which has Fred Meyers,City markets,and Smith's Grocery labels,as well as Albertson's which is Von's,Ralph's,and Safeway labels.

The two I mentioned are carrying more debt than underlying value. And Albertson's is held by Crebus Capital . Which recently sold off the Super Valu Warehousing operations to Amazon in a effort to reduce some of it's debt.

[msongs]

7. give em enuff corporate welfare and they will take over your city and kill local businesses too nt

[Demovictory9]

9. ugh

[lame54]

10. If they simply cut hours...

Then the customers are going to feel it

If the plan is to hire more part time employees to fill in the gap so they can save on health insurance

Then that is a pretty scummy thing for the richest* man on earth to do



*I think it's Putin