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Oh great, another tax-advantaged injury-factory for Amazon to pay no taxes while they chew up and spit out our citizens with low enough wages to adding nothing back to the local economy.
Yup. And this facility isn’t remotely close to their primary labor pool. Just like every other warehouse or distribution facility, they’re going to find out that they can’t retain employees because it’s so difficult/expensive to get to and then complain about it.
$15 dollars and hour minimum wage (for a job that requires few skills) which equals $31,200 a year; comprehensive medical dental, and vision insurance; 401k retirement plan with 50% employer match (beginning on first day of job); and 20 weeks of maternal/parental leave…that is what Amazon offers. Now, what do you offer your employees?
Brent – $15 is barely an adequate wage in Indiana, especially when that’s a starting wage at a lot of places now. Yes, my company pays that (with actual career paths) plus full benefits, generous 401k with over 100% match, etc…
Amazon has more than DOUBLE the national average for injuries in their facilities. A forklift driver was crushed to death here in Indiana, and the company and State essentially swept it under the rug in an effort to get HQ2.
Anecdotally, I also have two close friends who were very fit and healthy 20-somethings when they started at Amazon Fulfillment Centers here in Indiana – both were hurt so badly in the first few years that they had to leave the company, and have ongoing health problems due to the injuries. Look up the reports of grueling mandatory 60 hours overtime, “voluntary time off” that is absolutely not voluntary and is actually just never knowing how many hours you will work this week, constantly increasing impossible quotas, and zero respect for privacy or dignity…
Brent B., you’ve obviously never worked at an Amazon facility. Yes, they raised the pay $1 or $2 an hour to meet the $15 minimum. But at the same time Amazon was taking away lucrative bonuses and stocks that were worth far, far more than that $1 or $2 pay increase. Benefits are excellent at Amazon…no doubt. But the conditions faced by workers in those facilities are beyond horrible. That’s why Amazon has huge turnover and has to import workers from other countries.
Totally agree. They already have a reputation for treating their workers like crap and don’t do a lot for them. They’re really starting to get a reputation as a bad company that just exploits their workers and now we get to deal with that in our own community. And yet some will celebrate as a great win because “jobs.”
It’s about time Hancock County gets something big. I know my granddaughter would jump at this chance. It certainly beats her current job at Walmart.
The bigger question here is why does Indiana still have one of the lowest, if not THE lowest, hourly minimum wage rates in the country? If an individual cannot afford to live on the $15 an hour Amazon will be and is currently paying, how in the world is someone expected to have any kind of quality of life making only $7.35 an hour?
Because the jobs paying $7.25/hr arent meant to be jobs to support or raise a family on. They are meant to be jobs for high school students or retired people to supplement income.
And how many businesses pay minimum wage? Pretty much none. Creating artificial wage floors is not the way to improve worker pay.
minimum wage laws need to be removed and let companies decide what the wage will be based on market conditions…..but they would be lost without a govt. mandated floor as the starting point.
It would be a true auction for labor.
Welcome to Walmart. The Robot Will Grab Your Groceries.
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Walmart is testing back-of-store automated systems that can collect 800 products an hour, 10 times as many as a store worker
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-walmart-the-robot-will-grab-your-groceries-11578499200
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N.B. This article is behind WSJ’s paywall and will count against your quota.
Yeah, because companies are just dying to hire people over 65 for their $7.25 jobs. What planet do you live on?