The new groupings of workers are all clamoring for more compensation. Amazon established a $15-per-hour minimum wage in 2018 and has lately committed to boosting hourly compensation for warehouse and transportation workers, stating that customer fulfillment and transportation personnel will begin at $16 per hour. However, Inland Empire Amazon Workers United claims that this is insufficient to keep up with growing living expenses. And, as e-commerce enters its busiest season, key fulfillment employees have a great opportunity to urge the corporation for higher compensation.
Even though Amazon is concerned about depleting the labor pool in certain locations, it continues to irritate some of the employees on whom its operations rely. In Illinois, the corporation reportedly dismissed a worker who attempted to persuade the company to take action after racial death threats were scribbled on the toilet walls of one of its locations. According to the ALU, Amazon suspended scores of employees at JFK8 when they refused to return to work in a smoke-filled warehouse after a fire. Workers at the Inland Empire airport claim the business punished individuals who spoke out or organized (something that the NLRB has formally accused the company of doing in at least one instance).
