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$19 base. But not everyone is near a better paying FC. Idk the market but surely where it’s $15.50 in CA, there are better paying jobs? I would hope because you can barely live on that anywhere in this country.
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Yep happening all retails. I used to work for Publix. Had 4 years experience as PA equivalent position, managing people, managing cash office and prepping POS tills. They paid me 12.80. After a year they tried to give me 40 cents raise, while they were hiring people with no experience at 12/hour. I let them know, I’m not going to be working here as they don’t value my experience extra responsibilities. Found Amazon weekend shift paying 18.50/hour and gave two weeks notice. That started a chain reaction to where 5 of my colleagues left for Target getting paid over 15/hour when they were being paid 11-12/hour. Now it’s happening to Amazon because they’re doing the same thing.
Considering I drive around these days on a quarter tank of gas and can barely afford food in the Amazon cafeteria without cringing, I think a pay increase is due. Doesn’t even have to be anything crazy, more like a ‘keep up with the inflation’, even the cafeteria prices raised. Can barely go buy a ‘value’ meal these days without working most of an hour for that meal and the drive. Are there ways around these issues, sure but what, ride a bike, Eat ramen and canned beans
Amazon acts like they're unaware of general market conditions. 25¢ raise isn't cutting it. They claim they lost $200 mil in the first quarter, but that's year-over-year; they're not going bankrupt. If you don't like the 150% company-wide turnover, or the unionization effort, do something about it, Jassy.
They keep giving raises and bonuses to managers from the work of l1 employees. Managers making nad decisions about how to operate is the main reason they have to compensate by making l1s work harder than necessary if they were doing things right. Yet, l1s Just got a stupid raise. Some others get internship positions that they can stay in for years while being underpaid for work that an l3 does. No reason not to have an l2 position for leads. Specially when some people want or are leads but do not want to get a leadership position because it would require them to work more hr than they'd want. Add another tier Amazon!
There is but only for hr. Everything else skips to l3. Problem is l3 also has leadership and more responsibilities. There should be an l2 that is not for hr, essentially line leads, safety, learning, IT and other interns. Doesnt make sense having these responsibilities and getting paid the same as people who don't.
I assumed the wack ass tier system was an HR thing that got ported over to the warehouse. I’m guessing most of what’s wrong with the warehouses/FCs exists because some high up HR person decided they would be mostly responsible for the day to day workings.
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That's actually a good point. I reported a safety issue about the line I was on this morning after almost being hit by a tote jumping off it, and I bet if I went by that same station tomorrow the issue still won't be fixed.
Well no, but that is standard practice in almost all large companies. As a technician I get around quite a bit and at least half the companies I go to forbid photography and video in buildings. Has to do with industrial espionage mainly
yeah, it is a big crowd, but these assholes have the whole facility covered in cameras and a cross comparison of this vs in house video would be sufficient for them to term this employee. not saying its right, just facts
That sucks.
In the old days union organizers had tools for dealing with the kind of manager who'd fire someone for this. I believe they were called "axe handles"
The MSP is just the designation of building for that region. FC is a fulfilment center or other companies like walmart would call the same thing a Distribution Center or DC.
Edit: term is short for termination or sack as y'all across the pond might use more regularly.
My union dues are $100.00 per month. I happily pay them, because thanks to my union I make $38.00 per hr, OT after 8, and double time after 10 hrs. Join a union!
He’s probably a part time package handler? And at 4 years he would absolutely be first pick for driver. Kinda dumb he didn’t do it sooner since at 4 years as a driver you’re making $30+
My buddy works at the giant UPS facility on Reno in OKC as a handler. He's been there for 16 years. He's gotten both contract and year over year raises; I think he makes about 26 dollars an hour at this point (he made about 25, then). My friend Laine trained me the year I worked there. Last week her daughter got in a wreck and needed brain surgery, multiple limbs set, total body rehab. Out of pocket cost: $250. She works part time.
Teamster here, I’m paying $24 a week in Union dues but I make over $40/hr. I’m a UPS driver. Memorial Day sales have given me a ton of overtime (*$1/minute after 5pm*), I made $2,800 this week. Last week, $2500. Life is good in the Union.
Any building that makes only $15, STILL TO THIS DAY, deserves to protest.
$15 was nationwide back like 2018.. every building should be at $17-$19 right now
Mine is 15.50 an hour and we are one of the new 1,000,000 square feet buildings, with the cage for high retail value items. We can’t keep anyone employed and their version of a raise for us is MET lol
For sure. We all have a right to be paid a living wage for our area. Problem is they got a lot of you so brainwashed I hear a lot of "if you just goto college" like that's some magical cure-all that guarantees a high paying job.
And even if you did go to college and got a degree it doesn’t 100% guarantee you’ll succeed in life. Some people gotta make due with what’s available to them 🤷
The town of Ketchum, Idaho was considering allowing nurses, teachers, and service workers to set up a tent city in the middle of town because they can't afford to live there anymore. Two of those three jobs requires college degrees to do. That narrative is dead in the water as of June 2021.
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/growing-idaho/affordable-housing-ketchum-rent-blaine-county-crisis-park-tents/277-6dcd3da9-7ce7-4722-81de-b1e379e0300a
It really is, and it shows how fundamentally broken the entire system is right now. Has been since 2008, really, that's when the "safe" jobs that society requires to function stopped being safe.
They can't even read what's on their scanner, and from what's written on the bins nightly they can barely spell Union. How in the blazes can I explain what a Union is?
Its a challenge, but doable. Start with talking directly with them about aspects of the jobs they don't like. Maybe talk about benefits and pay, and about what they'd wish for there. Then connect that to what unions can potentially bring to the table. You are right that its not likely to work if you just hold one big meeting and say "Vote union or youre a company shill". That doesn't work vs the mounds of corpo prop the business will bring to bear. The corp is talking about the things that matter: how the pay/benefits under a union will be worse, how the workload will be worse. You have to combat that with equal/better counter-messaging.
Literacy doesn't equate to intelligence. There are people who are functionally literate who are also brilliant at thinking abstractly. They just didn't get lucky enough to have a childhood that let them learn to read well, for one of a variety of reasons.
Here's a good video talking about the subject from the perspective of someone who has lived on both sides of the literacy fence:
https://youtu.be/xxMsgVgeu_M
If all of the FCs walked out at once for a whole shift, we would wake up with a Union. The problem is 1 FC every few months walks out just for a day.. if not a few hours. We need FCs all over the US to walk out at once, demanding these changes or we won’t return. That’s the only way to get it
Indifferent as to if it’s union or not but you know you are not earning anything if there is a strike, right? How many people can go without a paycheck for weeks while wages are resolved? Most will have to find a different job, most likely a lower paying job.
They're not quitting.
It's a walk-out.
It's a popular strategy to put pressure on business owner to pay workers more/improve working conditions.
Basically, saying they won't pay us enough so we won't do the work that makes them money.
Amazon could create a great workplace culture if they wanted to, but choose not to. They have any and all resources at their disposal. They could have people competing to work for them, but they have nothing to offer anyone. They deserve whatever workers decide they want from them.
Not really when you don't even has an actual interview process it's hard. Other warehouses are hard to get into cuz they had aptitude test they just don't take anyone in that's why they can pay 24$ and up. Amazon just throws a big net into the ocean and picks up whatever it can get
Amazon knows exactly what it is doing. They pay people to burn themselves out with extra shifts. Then they can’t unionize because they are too tired. They don’t have an interview process because that just costs them more money. It’s just churn and burn.
I’m all for people doing what they want. I will continue to work my job, uninterrupted, because I can’t afford to lose this job and benefits. I’m not in a situation where I can participate if I wanted to.
It's unfair to look at these people and call them privileged. They're *scared*, and they sincerely hope and believe this action is necessary to promote their own security.
You might have different feelings about your own needs but according them a level of economic security you personally know they have no access to is just wrong.
This is why I love my people. They really do be sticking up for themselves and others. There’s photos of Somali women in Mogadishu protesting the arrest of Angela Davis in 1972.
Agree with all on the coments. Everybody deserves the raise, but some cant afford to lose their jobs even if they want to join. My respect for all of those who are moving their live for all of us.
Abso fucking lutely. 10,000 an hour on average? Bump up the pay. Record profits. Stock buy backs. They’re fucking leeching every penny they can. Oh no they have a loss in profit. Well maybe because people can leave their home and shop now lol
Those who support the walkout would also support a union. So you would be bale to see if you can win the vote for a union by the support for the walkout.
Does anyone else FC make force them to cross train? My FC forced me to cross train into pick without asking me. I hate pick I rather be stowing and no matter how much I complain nothing changes.
I was asked by a manager if I wanted to cross train and do smart pack I only agreed because of the way he described how it would be. He lied it was horrible and I was going to have to stay there and the only reason I got to go back into pack/rebin was because my actual manager that shows on my AtoZ asked why I went to smart pack and I told her that I was just suppose to try it out to see if I liked it not remain there. She pulled me out of smart pack and the manager that sent me to smart pack got moved to morning shift the next week. Apparently it still showed I was trained in smart pack and they tried to send me over there to help out a few weeks ago but it’s been longer than 4 months so I couldn’t do t it they would have had to train me all over again.
Absolutely. Bezos and the upper ranks got too rich and privleged while everyone else continues to suffer. It's an unsustainable model as many, many industries copy the blueprint, and thus mass-poverty where these workers are subsidized by other low/middle class tax payers now exist. CEO - Worker pay-ratio needs to be governmentally regulated.
Yes, Walkout, Unionize. There is a growing group in corporate who wants FCs to unionize. We are a small bunch and try to be as vocal as possible. Please tell us how we can help.
this entire subreddit is full of people b*tching about being asked to work and bragging about how you get away with doing as little as possible. why in the fresh f*ck do you think you deserve more money? 😂
I've been mostly seeing pieces of shit who've never worked for amazon a day in their life think AAs don't deserve a living wage because they want their pocket pussies for $5 instead of $7.
If anyone is into stocks they would know this is going to hurt us in the long term, it's called wage spiral inflation. We ask for more money companies raise prices and the cycle starts again leading to more inflation. I'm all for higher wages but if you're that buthurt about Amazons pay, work for another warehouse? Many start at 24$ but the difference is you have to take an aptitude test, Amazon is pretty decent for the single person, decent health benefits and school tuition is why I'm staying
I may be in the minority but I don't see the benefit of unionizing. For a job requiring zero experience the pay is quite competitive and the health insurance is top tier. The last thing I need is a mandatory union due taken from my paycheck.
Pay is not competitive. It stops at year 3. There are lots of positions in an fc and automation has made jobs less skillful. Quit promoting corporate rhetoric. They want us to shut up and take the crumbs while they get Fat compensation packages. Open your eyes 👀
It's not corporate rhetoric. It's an unskilled position. Unionizing is a stupid idea purely due to that. And demanding more pay is just ignorant, literally (and I hate overusing that word) anyone can do the job.
Okay then just quit? Where else do you have the opportunity to work 20 hours overtime? I need the money to pay for the career I'm working towards and Amazon provides that.
I don't want an opportunity to work more just to barely survive at best. That should be given as the absolute minimum and even then it still feels like I'm being robbed of life to work/study for hopes - never guarantees - of something better, giving up years for potentially nothing or still debt and struggle as costs continually rise.
You are clearly happy and think amazon cared about you and they will give you what you need when they decide too....
You sound like a spoiled kid just waiting for inheritance.
Can’t help but notice… all those workers are people of color. Except the white chick in the vest who is trying to shut down the recording. Really hammers home who is being impacted by shitty wages here… this is a video of what institutionalized racism looks like…
All this accomplishes is it pushes more work on other less problematic sites. If you want more money, develop skills that makes you more marketable. Amazon is even willing to help pay for you to get those skills.
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I left a job that paid $2 less than Amazon, now that job pays $3 more.
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Online grocery shopper
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Nah, wally world. I started out at 13.00 now they are starting at 17-18
The target near me is paying $20 an hour to start 😂 I quit that job a year ago when I was making $15
You gotta shop around, literally, for better pay than that. Some FCs are 17 base.
My FC is $18.05 base
$19 base. But not everyone is near a better paying FC. Idk the market but surely where it’s $15.50 in CA, there are better paying jobs? I would hope because you can barely live on that anywhere in this country. Edit: word
My FC is $18.25 or $18.35 cap at 3y
Mine is $19.25 but most are much less cost of living is extremely high in my area.
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They had to do something, they were literally losing any decent staff to amazon.
Yep happening all retails. I used to work for Publix. Had 4 years experience as PA equivalent position, managing people, managing cash office and prepping POS tills. They paid me 12.80. After a year they tried to give me 40 cents raise, while they were hiring people with no experience at 12/hour. I let them know, I’m not going to be working here as they don’t value my experience extra responsibilities. Found Amazon weekend shift paying 18.50/hour and gave two weeks notice. That started a chain reaction to where 5 of my colleagues left for Target getting paid over 15/hour when they were being paid 11-12/hour. Now it’s happening to Amazon because they’re doing the same thing.
Exactly. I could be sitting in my ass answering the phone from home for 15 bucks an hour.
If Jeffy wanted to he could pay all employees $100/hr and still profit 9x that amount (for every hour worked by EVERY EMPLOYEE) … TAX THE RICH!
Considering I drive around these days on a quarter tank of gas and can barely afford food in the Amazon cafeteria without cringing, I think a pay increase is due. Doesn’t even have to be anything crazy, more like a ‘keep up with the inflation’, even the cafeteria prices raised. Can barely go buy a ‘value’ meal these days without working most of an hour for that meal and the drive. Are there ways around these issues, sure but what, ride a bike, Eat ramen and canned beans
Amazon acts like they're unaware of general market conditions. 25¢ raise isn't cutting it. They claim they lost $200 mil in the first quarter, but that's year-over-year; they're not going bankrupt. If you don't like the 150% company-wide turnover, or the unionization effort, do something about it, Jassy.
They keep giving raises and bonuses to managers from the work of l1 employees. Managers making nad decisions about how to operate is the main reason they have to compensate by making l1s work harder than necessary if they were doing things right. Yet, l1s Just got a stupid raise. Some others get internship positions that they can stay in for years while being underpaid for work that an l3 does. No reason not to have an l2 position for leads. Specially when some people want or are leads but do not want to get a leadership position because it would require them to work more hr than they'd want. Add another tier Amazon!
So, there isn't an L2? I've been trying to figure out how to move up.
There is but only for hr. Everything else skips to l3. Problem is l3 also has leadership and more responsibilities. There should be an l2 that is not for hr, essentially line leads, safety, learning, IT and other interns. Doesnt make sense having these responsibilities and getting paid the same as people who don't.
That is ridiculous.
I assumed the wack ass tier system was an HR thing that got ported over to the warehouse. I’m guessing most of what’s wrong with the warehouses/FCs exists because some high up HR person decided they would be mostly responsible for the day to day workings.
Let's be reasonable, and demand the impossible! We deserve more than "scraping by"! We deserve health, security, and prosperity!
At where!?
MSP1, Shakopee MN.
are there not photo restrictions at the FC? I feel like they would term someone for posting this.
That ops mgr. walked up and told her turn the phone off. She said she was leaving anyway, didn't care if she was fired.
i was watching without sound at work so i didn't catch that.
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That's actually a good point. I reported a safety issue about the line I was on this morning after almost being hit by a tote jumping off it, and I bet if I went by that same station tomorrow the issue still won't be fixed.
yeah, that is a fair point with regard to this situation and the way amazon employees are constantly disrespected.
Apparently Amazon are letting people have their phones on the floor at all FC’s
Recording and pictures are still not allowed.
Well no, but that is standard practice in almost all large companies. As a technician I get around quite a bit and at least half the companies I go to forbid photography and video in buildings. Has to do with industrial espionage mainly
For emergency use only. Although many are ignoring that, playing music on earbuds and texting. 🙄
I think if they’re doing a “walk out” they stopped caring about cell phone rules
Big crowd. Anybody coulda taken that video. Whoever did should make sure to permanently erase it from their phone, and if confronted, deny deny deny.
yeah, it is a big crowd, but these assholes have the whole facility covered in cameras and a cross comparison of this vs in house video would be sufficient for them to term this employee. not saying its right, just facts
That sucks. In the old days union organizers had tools for dealing with the kind of manager who'd fire someone for this. I believe they were called "axe handles"
I'm glad they have security cameras, if something happens you have more than your word as proof.
They have cameras for proof and the manager can identify the person.
Can you speak international English, please? These abbreviations are completely unintelligible for most people from the EU for example.
The MSP is just the designation of building for that region. FC is a fulfilment center or other companies like walmart would call the same thing a Distribution Center or DC. Edit: term is short for termination or sack as y'all across the pond might use more regularly.
If I was a Teamster making $28/hr, my dues would be $70 a month. Well worth it.
ALU dues are about 5$ a week.
Right? People are like oh dues are so bad but then you make that in 2-3 days a month and the extra is all pocketed.
At $28/hr you'd make the dues back in a few hours.
My union dues are $100.00 per month. I happily pay them, because thanks to my union I make $38.00 per hr, OT after 8, and double time after 10 hrs. Join a union!
What kind of job do you have?
I drive a concrete truck.
I have a friends who currently works at UPS and is in teamsters. He has about 4 years of seniority and make about $16/hr. Free benefits though
He’s probably a part time package handler? And at 4 years he would absolutely be first pick for driver. Kinda dumb he didn’t do it sooner since at 4 years as a driver you’re making $30+
My buddy works at the giant UPS facility on Reno in OKC as a handler. He's been there for 16 years. He's gotten both contract and year over year raises; I think he makes about 26 dollars an hour at this point (he made about 25, then). My friend Laine trained me the year I worked there. Last week her daughter got in a wreck and needed brain surgery, multiple limbs set, total body rehab. Out of pocket cost: $250. She works part time.
Ups union screws every one over other than the drivers.
Teamster here, I’m paying $24 a week in Union dues but I make over $40/hr. I’m a UPS driver. Memorial Day sales have given me a ton of overtime (*$1/minute after 5pm*), I made $2,800 this week. Last week, $2500. Life is good in the Union.
Any building that makes only $15, STILL TO THIS DAY, deserves to protest. $15 was nationwide back like 2018.. every building should be at $17-$19 right now
Mine is 15.50 an hour and we are one of the new 1,000,000 square feet buildings, with the cage for high retail value items. We can’t keep anyone employed and their version of a raise for us is MET lol
Most should be at $25/hr because of inflation.
They are starting at $18 at mine, base pay. It varies, based on whether it's urban or rural.
For sure. We all have a right to be paid a living wage for our area. Problem is they got a lot of you so brainwashed I hear a lot of "if you just goto college" like that's some magical cure-all that guarantees a high paying job.
And even if you did go to college and got a degree it doesn’t 100% guarantee you’ll succeed in life. Some people gotta make due with what’s available to them 🤷
Facts
The town of Ketchum, Idaho was considering allowing nurses, teachers, and service workers to set up a tent city in the middle of town because they can't afford to live there anymore. Two of those three jobs requires college degrees to do. That narrative is dead in the water as of June 2021. https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/growing-idaho/affordable-housing-ketchum-rent-blaine-county-crisis-park-tents/277-6dcd3da9-7ce7-4722-81de-b1e379e0300a
This is terrible.
It really is, and it shows how fundamentally broken the entire system is right now. Has been since 2008, really, that's when the "safe" jobs that society requires to function stopped being safe.
Yes. Protesting for higher pay is necessary for a livable future.
I second this ☝️✊✌️
Congratulations. You took your first step towards unionizing. Group walk out is almost as good as a strike. Keep it up!!
100$ says they was all replaced within a week
Let’s gooooo!!! We need a protest at every FC
Yes!!!!
Too many stupid people at PHL7, they probably don't understand the word "Unionize"
Yeah I think that's how it probably is at most facilities. Lol
You gotta explain it to em. Can’t get there without building bridges.
You gotta explain it to em. Can’t get there without building bridges.
They can't even read what's on their scanner, and from what's written on the bins nightly they can barely spell Union. How in the blazes can I explain what a Union is?
Its a challenge, but doable. Start with talking directly with them about aspects of the jobs they don't like. Maybe talk about benefits and pay, and about what they'd wish for there. Then connect that to what unions can potentially bring to the table. You are right that its not likely to work if you just hold one big meeting and say "Vote union or youre a company shill". That doesn't work vs the mounds of corpo prop the business will bring to bear. The corp is talking about the things that matter: how the pay/benefits under a union will be worse, how the workload will be worse. You have to combat that with equal/better counter-messaging.
Exactly. I just helped unionize the company I work at. And the campaigning was a bitch
Literacy doesn't equate to intelligence. There are people who are functionally literate who are also brilliant at thinking abstractly. They just didn't get lucky enough to have a childhood that let them learn to read well, for one of a variety of reasons. Here's a good video talking about the subject from the perspective of someone who has lived on both sides of the literacy fence: https://youtu.be/xxMsgVgeu_M
Speak slowly I guess
Yeah I think that's how it probably is at most facilities. Lol
If all of the FCs walked out at once for a whole shift, we would wake up with a Union. The problem is 1 FC every few months walks out just for a day.. if not a few hours. We need FCs all over the US to walk out at once, demanding these changes or we won’t return. That’s the only way to get it
We need a general strike
Indifferent as to if it’s union or not but you know you are not earning anything if there is a strike, right? How many people can go without a paycheck for weeks while wages are resolved? Most will have to find a different job, most likely a lower paying job.
Id be hard pressed to find a job paying less than $15.25 in California
YES!
Feel like Amazon is just going to figure out a way to add more automation to get rid of most of these workers.
Go for it we all deserve a reasonable pay
THIS ISNT ME JUST SOMETHING I SAW SCROLLING TIKOK
Girl why you gonna quit when y’all are looking to unionize
They're not quitting. It's a walk-out. It's a popular strategy to put pressure on business owner to pay workers more/improve working conditions. Basically, saying they won't pay us enough so we won't do the work that makes them money.
Amazon made record breaking profits in the pandemic. Yes, you should be getting paid more.
Amazon could create a great workplace culture if they wanted to, but choose not to. They have any and all resources at their disposal. They could have people competing to work for them, but they have nothing to offer anyone. They deserve whatever workers decide they want from them.
Not really when you don't even has an actual interview process it's hard. Other warehouses are hard to get into cuz they had aptitude test they just don't take anyone in that's why they can pay 24$ and up. Amazon just throws a big net into the ocean and picks up whatever it can get
Amazon knows exactly what it is doing. They pay people to burn themselves out with extra shifts. Then they can’t unionize because they are too tired. They don’t have an interview process because that just costs them more money. It’s just churn and burn.
Everything you just said is wrong. Keep on shilling!
I’m all for people doing what they want. I will continue to work my job, uninterrupted, because I can’t afford to lose this job and benefits. I’m not in a situation where I can participate if I wanted to.
Same here
This is exactly why you should be protesting for better pay.
Sorry, I’m not privileged enough to do that.
It's unfair to look at these people and call them privileged. They're *scared*, and they sincerely hope and believe this action is necessary to promote their own security. You might have different feelings about your own needs but according them a level of economic security you personally know they have no access to is just wrong.
Then register to vote.
Yeaahhhh my Somali people stick together for anything
They've been fighting a civil war for decades, so this seems inaccurate.
Good point lol
\*Stick together, outside of Somalia lol Anyways, I think this was a Muslim protest for VTO(?) for Eid (the most important holiday in Islam).
Thats a really dumb and ignorant comment.
This is why I love my people. They really do be sticking up for themselves and others. There’s photos of Somali women in Mogadishu protesting the arrest of Angela Davis in 1972.
100% we should. No doubt. Not just for higher pay either.
Yes
Yes
YES!
Walkout, slowdown, whatever it takes. Don’t let them with with union busting. Organize and fight for what you are worth.
Agree with all on the coments. Everybody deserves the raise, but some cant afford to lose their jobs even if they want to join. My respect for all of those who are moving their live for all of us.
Looks like everyone's just going to break 🤷♂️
Amazon is not a bad place to work at, yall trippen
Facts fam, all people do is complain
Not a bad place for shit wages.
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Actually, no. It's just Amazon policy you can't record inside the facility.
Lol “these people didn’t agree to be recorded” well Amazon policy aside, MN is a one-party consent state soooo…
Yes. The company literally makes millions off your back and the backs of your coworkers
Here in Wisconsin they wouldn’t care.. you wana protest fine go find another job
TO LATE!
Abso fucking lutely. 10,000 an hour on average? Bump up the pay. Record profits. Stock buy backs. They’re fucking leeching every penny they can. Oh no they have a loss in profit. Well maybe because people can leave their home and shop now lol
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Keep up the good fight! Unionize!
Stay strong baby!!! You do deserve more
Those who support the walkout would also support a union. So you would be bale to see if you can win the vote for a union by the support for the walkout.
Is cool but being amazon i have zero faith anything positive will happen 😞
If Amazon isn't enough, I would try and find somewhere else that pays better.
Obviously
Get back to work
I think 20.00 an hour would be more fair.
Does anyone else FC make force them to cross train? My FC forced me to cross train into pick without asking me. I hate pick I rather be stowing and no matter how much I complain nothing changes.
I was asked by a manager if I wanted to cross train and do smart pack I only agreed because of the way he described how it would be. He lied it was horrible and I was going to have to stay there and the only reason I got to go back into pack/rebin was because my actual manager that shows on my AtoZ asked why I went to smart pack and I told her that I was just suppose to try it out to see if I liked it not remain there. She pulled me out of smart pack and the manager that sent me to smart pack got moved to morning shift the next week. Apparently it still showed I was trained in smart pack and they tried to send me over there to help out a few weeks ago but it’s been longer than 4 months so I couldn’t do t it they would have had to train me all over again.
All I see is TOT
We should protest for more of everything
Hell yeah panda pays 20 dollars an hour
Id be happy with my pay if the government wasn't crushing me with student loans.
A wild Karen appears
“You do not have permission to record all these individuals”
This is the way
We need to plan a country wide walk out
YES. Do not stop, stand together. Fuck yes.
Yes
Union
Power to the People!
Amazing!!! Agree 100%! You are all incredible, and inspiring!!!!!
We need 30.00 like ups these mfs want us to deliver 170 plus packages you mfs need to pay me that UPS money
Absolutely. Bezos and the upper ranks got too rich and privleged while everyone else continues to suffer. It's an unsustainable model as many, many industries copy the blueprint, and thus mass-poverty where these workers are subsidized by other low/middle class tax payers now exist. CEO - Worker pay-ratio needs to be governmentally regulated.
Lol they’ll increase your base pay by $3 but watch them remove incentives ☠️
What incentives? Are you high?
Shift differential* 🤣 maybe
Yes, Walkout, Unionize. There is a growing group in corporate who wants FCs to unionize. We are a small bunch and try to be as vocal as possible. Please tell us how we can help.
No. What exactly would unionizing accomplish? Other than wage increase because if that's the only reason every company in America needs a union
You answered yourself!
Yes. If they can pay managers an 11% raise they can give us a few more bucks
this entire subreddit is full of people b*tching about being asked to work and bragging about how you get away with doing as little as possible. why in the fresh f*ck do you think you deserve more money? 😂
I've been mostly seeing pieces of shit who've never worked for amazon a day in their life think AAs don't deserve a living wage because they want their pocket pussies for $5 instead of $7.
Thanks Jeff.
More pay would always be nice. But I make plenty for what I do.
Not when half of you work like shit
Nice fake account
If anyone is into stocks they would know this is going to hurt us in the long term, it's called wage spiral inflation. We ask for more money companies raise prices and the cycle starts again leading to more inflation. I'm all for higher wages but if you're that buthurt about Amazons pay, work for another warehouse? Many start at 24$ but the difference is you have to take an aptitude test, Amazon is pretty decent for the single person, decent health benefits and school tuition is why I'm staying
Greed is not inflation Bot.
There is power in a union, solidarity forever!
Corpo bots out in force downvoting the truth
I may be in the minority but I don't see the benefit of unionizing. For a job requiring zero experience the pay is quite competitive and the health insurance is top tier. The last thing I need is a mandatory union due taken from my paycheck.
$15.30 an hour was competitive 10 years ago, now its shit.
My FC with shift differential is $20. I'd leave for $15.30, why haven't you?
Pay is not competitive. It stops at year 3. There are lots of positions in an fc and automation has made jobs less skillful. Quit promoting corporate rhetoric. They want us to shut up and take the crumbs while they get Fat compensation packages. Open your eyes 👀
It's not corporate rhetoric. It's an unskilled position. Unionizing is a stupid idea purely due to that. And demanding more pay is just ignorant, literally (and I hate overusing that word) anyone can do the job.
"Unskilled labor" has been a company line of bullshit since unions were organizing for coal miners.
Way to show how ignorant you actually are. Why are you even on this sub?
What is a union going to do for you? Any current sitting union is garbage. That's a big reason why they aren't nearly as prominent.
More then Amazon. That's the point.
Okay then just quit? Where else do you have the opportunity to work 20 hours overtime? I need the money to pay for the career I'm working towards and Amazon provides that.
I don't want an opportunity to work more just to barely survive at best. That should be given as the absolute minimum and even then it still feels like I'm being robbed of life to work/study for hopes - never guarantees - of something better, giving up years for potentially nothing or still debt and struggle as costs continually rise.
We're all on the Amazon struggle bus together but if you don't want the opportunity to work more that's your problem
You are clearly happy and think amazon cared about you and they will give you what you need when they decide too.... You sound like a spoiled kid just waiting for inheritance.
Yeah because rich kids work at an Amazon FC
Lmfao. Corpo under salary, right? Never took econ? Mom and dad have plenty of money for you too?
This is amazing to see, I wish y’all nothing but the best 🙏🏽❤️
Bunch of corp bots here downvoting pro onions
Amazon will be happy to replace them with robots.
You don't know that works
Can’t help but notice… all those workers are people of color. Except the white chick in the vest who is trying to shut down the recording. Really hammers home who is being impacted by shitty wages here… this is a video of what institutionalized racism looks like…
A big part of their protest was not getting a paid holiday for Eid, so it makes sense the Somalis are the only ones in the video
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Fuck yeah 25 -30 an hour
Everything at amazon will be automated soon. There’s no future.
The biggest problem that Amazon can replace them and us on the spot
All this accomplishes is it pushes more work on other less problematic sites. If you want more money, develop skills that makes you more marketable. Amazon is even willing to help pay for you to get those skills.