Amazon announced this week that it is planning to end both $2-an-hour pay increases and double overtime for warehouse workers at the end of May.
Whole Foods, the Amazon-owned supermarket chain, also informed employees Tuesday that their $2 hourly raises will end on June 1.
As Amazon moves to end small hazard pay increases for its workers, an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies found that Bezos—the richest man in the world—saw his wealth increase by $30 billion between March 18 and May 14.
"Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential," said former Amazon vice president Tim Bray, who resigned in disgust earlier this month over the company's treatment of whistleblowers. "Only that's not just Amazon, it's how 21st-century capitalism is done."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/14/slap-face-bezos-wealth-jumps-30-billion-amid-pandemic-amazon-end-2-hour-hazard-pay
Whole Foods, the Amazon-owned supermarket chain, also informed employees Tuesday that their $2 hourly raises will end on June 1.
As Amazon moves to end small hazard pay increases for its workers, an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies found that Bezos—the richest man in the world—saw his wealth increase by $30 billion between March 18 and May 14.
"Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential," said former Amazon vice president Tim Bray, who resigned in disgust earlier this month over the company's treatment of whistleblowers. "Only that's not just Amazon, it's how 21st-century capitalism is done."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/14/slap-face-bezos-wealth-jumps-30-billion-amid-pandemic-amazon-end-2-hour-hazard-pay
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