Posted on 03/06/2019 6:45:35 PM PST by RightGeek
In response to public pressure and increasing scrutiny over the pay of its warehouse workers, Amazon enacted a $15 minimum wage for all its employees on 1 November, including workers at grocery chain Whole Foods, which it purchased in 2017.
All Whole Foods employees paid less than $15 an hour saw their wages increase to at least that, while all other team members received a $1 an hour wage increase and team leaders received a $2 an hour increase.
But since the wage increase, Whole Food employees have told the Guardian that they have experienced widespread cuts that have reduced schedule shifts across many stores, often negating wage gains for employees.
“My hours went from 30 to 20 a week,” said one Whole Foods employee in Illinois.
Workers interviewed for this story were reluctant to speak on the record for fear of retaliation.
The Illinois-based worker explained that once the $15 minimum wage was enacted, part-time employee hours at their store were cut from an average of 30 to 21 hours a week, and full-time employees saw average hours reduced from 37.5 hours to 34.5 hours. The worker provided schedules from 1 November to the end of January 2019, showing hours for workers in their department significantly decreased as the department’s percentage of the entire store labor budget stayed relatively the same.
“We just have to work faster to meet the same goals in less time,” the worker said.
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Stupid should hurt.
Especially to progressives.
Proving once again that the true minimum wage is zero.
Humanitarian Amazon.
There is saying about legislating prosperity.
So if you worked 30 hours and got paid 12 an hour, you made 360.
Now 20 hours at 15 is 300.
BUT I bet they were willing to let you work to 35 or 40 hours at 12 an hour.
Now you’re talking possibly 480 vs 300.
Worked out well.
And see how much faster robots show up in the next 5 to 10 years.
In free enterprise, a company never absorbs a socialist mandate. Never. It is passed on to you or they cut costs. pretty simple. It is freedom vs communism. Goes way back.Socialism must be rooted out and destroyed or it will destroy this country.
Math’s hard, for lib sheep.
They only get the aftermath ;-)
Click the Pic
LOL
I like that! :)
Another option is closing the doors.
Just the way it’s supposed to work.
“We just have to work faster to meet the same goals in less time,” the worker said.
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Less time to lounge around doing nothing? hmmmm.
They only get the aftermath ;-)
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LOL...... Good One.
Let’s see....
If they were working 30 hours at $12 per hour = $360
20 hours at $15 per hour is $300... but they have time to work another job now....
Amazon ruined Whole Foods inventory.
“We just have to work faster to meet the same goals in less time,” the worker said.
How dare they expect more work for more money?
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