Why Amazon Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15

[JCanete]

11. whether sanders bill had a major impact I don't konw...but I doubt the

4% employment number is that relevant. Hell, people working doordash and Uber are considered employed, and Uber salaries are calculated at netting about 3.20 an hour nationally. You can do a lot worse than what Amazon pays now, which is still shit.

I doubt that Companies were going to struggle significantly to fill positions, but certainly as others have felt pressure to raise pay, the competition has had to follow...just don't pretend those companies did it in a vacuum of pressure and pr value.

here you go...right at the end of the article you agree with...


All this said: Even if his own mercenary interests played bigger a role in Bezos’s decision than his own statement suggests, that doesn’t mean that Amazon’s workers and critics weren’t instrumental in today’s good news. Corporations do not automatically (or even usually) sacrifice short-term profitability to their own enlightened, long-term financial interest. If bidding up wages across the retail sector makes business sense for Amazon today, then it made sense for the company a year ago. In between, the company’s workers and their political allies raised the costs of a low-wage business model. Now, they’ve earned themselves a higher paycheck.