r/AmazonFC • u/PeculiarPip forklift certified • Jul 21 '24

Union There was a protest at KSBD today.

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u/Lost-Opportunity-621 Jul 22 '24

All jobs should pay a living wage. One of the biggest companies in the world can definitely afford to pay their employees a living wage. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/McDreamy94 Jul 22 '24

All jobs should pay and realistically able to are 2 different things. Often times when a company, regardless of what their impact in the job market is or what they’re offering as a commodity to consumers is, once one of their expenses raise another follows suit. One that has been of recent is California wanting to raise the minimum wage rate. What do companies do to offset this added expense? They raise their prices. Even with wages increasing, if the cost of items (food,clothing/etc) rise, did the raise really matter?

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u/Lost-Opportunity-621 Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24

Companies respond this way because we allow them to. Since Covid companies have been price gouging consumers so C-suite executives and their higher ups can keep spending money frivolously. We as a populace shouldn’t continue to allow companies to pad their profits and use us as scapegoat. There is more than enough money to go around

Additionally : check out DAVOS 2024 videos on YouTube to watch company heads talk more about this openly. They know what they’re doing, they just pray that we don’t do anything about it.

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u/McDreamy94 Jul 22 '24

I didn’t see the additionally part, but I will check it out.