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Amazon workers were on strike today, they have been offered 35p an hour pay rise - £14 a week.
Amazons operating profits are $25,000,000,000, and in the Uk magically it only pays 0.37% tax on gross sales.
Should we pay a bit more for Amazon products so their employees can get a pay rise
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"I'd happily take a 35p per hour pay increase. I bet they're paid more than minimum wage anyway. "
Amazon said UK warehouse employee salaries will rise to between £10.50 and £11.45 an hour, which it called “competitive pay.” But its dependent on location.
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"I'd happily take a 35p per hour pay increase. I bet they're paid more than minimum wage anyway.
Amazon said UK warehouse employee salaries will rise to between £10.50 and £11.45 an hour, which it called “competitive pay.” But its dependent on location.
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Definitely more than I get paid, and alot of other people!! |
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"That’s why there is a shortage of delivery drivers at lots of other companies..
Amazon pay well over the odds! "
The drivers that deliver the packages to your door are not included in the "Amazon Workers" this story is about, they are gig economy self-employed in a similar way to Just-Eat and Uber |
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Genuine question though, why should a successful business be forced to pay more?
If you were running a little cafe with razor thin margins would you pay all your staff more? Even though it would nearly bankrupt you?
The tax is a scandal though. No company should be able to dodge so much tax |
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"Genuine question though, why should a successful business be forced to pay more?
If you were running a little cafe with razor thin margins would you pay all your staff more? Even though it would nearly bankrupt you?
The tax is a scandal though. No company should be able to dodge so much tax "
Any pay that doesn't match inflation, is in real terms a pay reduction. Companies large and small are more than happy to increase their prices because their supply chain has done the same, but never thinks it is acceptable to do the same to cover the cost of necessary pay increases.
They also seem to increase prices by a little bit more to provide extra profits... whilst the staff are struggling to put food on the table.
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"But what about poor old Jeff and his forthcoming half a billion bill for the newest of his yachts?  "
Is that the one that's currently stuck in a dutch port because they refuse to dismantle a bridge to let it out? |
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"Genuine question though, why should a successful business be forced to pay more?
If you were running a little cafe with razor thin margins would you pay all your staff more? Even though it would nearly bankrupt you?
The tax is a scandal though. No company should be able to dodge so much tax "
Because without those workers you wouldn't have a business in the first place |
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"Amazon workers were on strike today, they have been offered 35p an hour pay rise - £14 a week.
Amazons operating profits are $25,000,000,000, and in the Uk magically it only pays 0.37% tax on gross sales.
Should we pay a bit more for Amazon products so their employees can get a pay rise
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"Genuine question though, why should a successful business be forced to pay more?
If you were running a little cafe with razor thin margins would you pay all your staff more? Even though it would nearly bankrupt you?
The tax is a scandal though. No company should be able to dodge so much tax
Any pay that doesn't match inflation, is in real terms a pay reduction. Companies large and small are more than happy to increase their prices because their supply chain has done the same, but never thinks it is acceptable to do the same to cover the cost of necessary pay increases.
They also seem to increase prices by a little bit more to provide extra profits... whilst the staff are struggling to put food on the table.
Cal"
Wouldn’t increasing wages also mean more outgoings? So they have to up prices?
I just find it weird that we judge people by success and say “that’s too much success” and hold them to a high standard
I don’t see anyone saying the same things to littke side cafes or small constructions firms.
The real problem isn’t what the staff are paid. Because as one poster said, if you don’t like it, leave
The issue we should be tackling is why the company pays so little tax. That’s a lot of missing tax from 1 company. The country is about to enter the mother of all recessions. We should start collecting that tax |
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"Genuine question though, why should a successful business be forced to pay more?
If you were running a little cafe with razor thin margins would you pay all your staff more? Even though it would nearly bankrupt you?
The tax is a scandal though. No company should be able to dodge so much tax
Any pay that doesn't match inflation, is in real terms a pay reduction. Companies large and small are more than happy to increase their prices because their supply chain has done the same, but never thinks it is acceptable to do the same to cover the cost of necessary pay increases.
They also seem to increase prices by a little bit more to provide extra profits... whilst the staff are struggling to put food on the table.
Cal
Wouldn’t increasing wages also mean more outgoings? So they have to up prices?
I just find it weird that we judge people by success and say “that’s too much success” and hold them to a high standard
I don’t see anyone saying the same things to littke side cafes or small constructions firms.
The real problem isn’t what the staff are paid. Because as one poster said, if you don’t like it, leave
The issue we should be tackling is why the company pays so little tax. That’s a lot of missing tax from 1 company. The country is about to enter the mother of all recessions. We should start collecting that tax"
I have no problem with people being successful, but others shouldn't have to suffer to generate that success.
The whole fact that there are benefits available for people who have jobs shows us that companies are able to under-pay their staff. Benefits that top-up low wages are a subsidy of employers not employees.
I also have no problem with prices going up to support wages, it's certainly less annoying than prices going up to increase already massive profits.
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"Genuine question though, why should a successful business be forced to pay more?
If you were running a little cafe with razor thin margins would you pay all your staff more? Even though it would nearly bankrupt you?
The tax is a scandal though. No company should be able to dodge so much tax
Any pay that doesn't match inflation, is in real terms a pay reduction. Companies large and small are more than happy to increase their prices because their supply chain has done the same, but never thinks it is acceptable to do the same to cover the cost of necessary pay increases.
They also seem to increase prices by a little bit more to provide extra profits... whilst the staff are struggling to put food on the table.
Cal
Wouldn’t increasing wages also mean more outgoings? So they have to up prices?
I just find it weird that we judge people by success and say “that’s too much success” and hold them to a high standard
I don’t see anyone saying the same things to littke side cafes or small constructions firms.
The real problem isn’t what the staff are paid. Because as one poster said, if you don’t like it, leave
The issue we should be tackling is why the company pays so little tax. That’s a lot of missing tax from 1 company. The country is about to enter the mother of all recessions. We should start collecting that tax"
Why not both?
Why can't we be of the opinion that they used that $25 billion to both pay their staff better in real terms and in better work environments and ALSO pay the tax they should actually pay like any other company?
The reason companies like that get such high profits is because they abuse their workers and don't pay tax, only tackling one half doesn't seem like it is the right way to address it.
I would also personally say if your building that profit off of abusing your workforce (which amazon clearly do) then it isn't really a "success story" it is an "exploitation story" |
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"I'd happily take a 35p per hour pay increase. I bet they're paid more than minimum wage anyway. "
I kinda agree with this ... unfortunately I'm betting all Amazon workers are on zero hours contracts. Surely they should be looking there first |
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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago
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Well they've just bought a robot company for 1.5 billion so no doubt in the near future those 35p increases will turn into decreases as they use said robot company to further automate their warehouses. |
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"Well they've just bought a robot company for 1.5 billion so no doubt in the near future those 35p increases will turn into decreases as they use said robot company to further automate their warehouses. "
….runs off to google ‘ how to train to be a robot fixer engineer person’   |
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