Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Employees

schuylaar said:

why do you hate bernie so much?

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TacoMac said:

The kind of statement only a moron would make.

Again, if you really think that Jeff Bezos would have done this on his own, you're beyond delusional. If you think for one second he's going to let it last, you're a complete idiot.

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TacoMac said:

That's because they volunteer. Freaking duh.

Secondly, people like you crack me up. You hate somebody so much that you'll make the most ridiculous claims, spew complete, total and utter bullshit and make yourself look like a patent idiot rather than simply admit that Bernie did something.

Thirdly, you criticise him for using volunteer staffers like everybody else does including the richest sport on earth, the Super Bowl. A sporting event that sells advertising at 5 million dollars for 30 seconds has to ask for volunteers.

You're a fucking moron.

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travisw said:

I know you're on a roll with all the 'idiot" and "you're a fucking moron" stuff but let's try and look at the issues without all your histrionics.

You say Besos would have never done this on his own.

Labor economists disagree. Amazon needs to hire 100,000 workers for their holiday season. They have to do this in an extremely tight labor market where unemployment just dropped below 4%. Wage hikes like this one have historically occurred in similar economies.

“We have a tight labor market, and these are tough jobs with high turnover rates,” said Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at the University of California at Berkeley. “You add in that Amazon is competing for workers, and it makes sense that it is raising wages.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...fter-facing-criticism/?utm_term=.37e52530fb98

If Jeff only raised wages because of Bernie, why have Amazon's biggest competitors raised their wages?
https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/25/news/companies/target-minimum-wage/index.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauren...s-minimum-wage-after-tax-reform/#1fa8d47973c9

Your claim about volunteer staff isn't correct either.

His campaign actually tried to gain some positive press of the fact that they were the only campaign paying interns. They paid $10.10 at that time.
http://time.com/money/4215463/bernie-sanders-campaign-paid-internships/

During a Clinton debate, Sanders then said,"You have no disposable income when you are making 10, 12 bucks an hour."

He later advertised internships in his office that paid $12.

New outlets seized on that hypocrisy.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-pays-interns-below-his-definition-of-living-wage/

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schuylaar said:

ummmmmmmmmmmmmminterns aren't usually paid..

Still, Sanders is the only presidential candidate among the initial sixteen contenders who pays interns.

Clinton relies on free labor for her campaign internships, though she established a paid fellowship last year after The Guardian reported she had brought on experienced organizers as unpaid interns.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-pays-interns-below-his-definition-of-living-wage/

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travisw said:

If you have a point, admittedly I missed it.

Yes, presidential campaign interns aren't usually paid. That's why the positions typically go to the children of wealthy whites.

You are correct, Bernie was the only candidate who paid his interns $5 less than what he considers a minimum wage.

I haven't the faintest idea what Clinton has to do with any of this. But yeah, Clinton totally?!

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travisw said:

I know you're on a roll with all the 'idiot" and "you're a fucking moron" stuff but let's try and look at the issues without all your histrionics.

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