The optimist in me says good for those workers. From much of what I've read, work in Amazon warehouses are stressful and difficult. And I have mostly found that workers in Whole Foods have been pleasant, and harder working than some of the people at places like Walmart. So they deserve decent pay, for sure. Amazon employs more than 350K workers, so it's a huge difference for many people.
The pessimist in me says, The company's shareholders won't like a dip in profits, so are going to expect Amazon to make up the difference elsewhere, likely in Prime subscription increases, etc. Also, as has been seen in Seattle, many workers end up having a net loss when they move to 15/hr, because they may lose Medicaid, SNAP, Section 8, etc. So then workers become part time to offset those losses.
I will be curious to see how things develop from here, what repercussions will end up occurring, good or bad.
Interesting here.
The optimist in me says good for those workers. From much of what I've read, work in Amazon warehouses are stressful and difficult. And I have mostly found that workers in Whole Foods have been pleasant, and harder working than some of the people at places like Walmart. So they deserve decent pay, for sure. Amazon employs more than 350K workers, so it's a huge difference for many people.
The pessimist in me says, The company's shareholders won't like a dip in profits, so are going to expect Amazon to make up the difference elsewhere, likely in Prime subscription increases, etc. Also, as has been seen in Seattle, many workers end up having a net loss when they move to 15/hr, because they may lose Medicaid, SNAP, Section 8, etc. So then workers become part time to offset those losses.
I will be curious to see how things develop from here, what repercussions will end up occurring, good or bad.