Re:The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
by evrydayhustling on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:02AM
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There are certainly loopholes for them, Walmart, and every other retailer. However, the $18 applies to over 100k jobs [1], so it's not meaningless.
I'm not saying that the labor market is cartel-free, but Amazon is legit a step up from Walmart (at 65+ P/E they can afford to be).
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-18-dollars-hour-starting...
Re:The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
by colejohnson66 on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:10AM
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The drivers are contractors, but the warehouse employees aren't
You mean small mom and pop businesses?
The kinds of businesses they're subcontracting to aren't "mom & pop" in the sense that's generally used to mean. They're remora: they exist to feed off of the scraps Amazon drops.
Re:The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
by missedthecue on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:00PM
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Amazon has almost 1.5 million employees, most of them are warehouse and transportation staff.
Except isn't there a gigantic loophole related to, uhhh, lots of "Amazon" workers actually being employed by subcontractors rather than by Amazon.com Inc., to whom this minimum does not apply?