Amazon’s pay raise for over 500,000 workers comes at an interesting time

Amazon’s pay raise for over 500,000 workers comes at an interesting time


Amazon has announced that over 500,000 of its workers will get a permanent increase in their hourly wages starting in mid-May, from as low as an additional 50 cents an hour to as much as three extra dollars per hour (via GeekWire). That’s a substantial chunk of its 1.

Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22408440/amazon-hourly-wage-increase-2021-factory-delivery-workers

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