Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus...
by throwaway894345 on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:56PM
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Wages are largely a function of supply and demand. This downturn favors critical workers because the demand increased faster than the supply can increase, so their wages/perks should go up accordingly, but nothing happens over night.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus...
by vkou on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:59PM
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They seem to be working towards making it happen, by pushing on the supply side. Good for them.
Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus...
by throwaway894345 on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:06PM
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Who is "them" and how are they pushing on the supply side? The supply is only increasing insofar as workers from other industries are able/willing to transition, and even for "menial" jobs such as these, there is surely a fair amount of training that must be done. Moreover, corporations will probably prefer to temporarily increase wages for their current workers rather than take on a glut of novice workers and then do layoffs or wait for attrition afterward, so the supply side seems limited in my view.