Jeff Bezos touts Amazon's $15/hour minimum wage in annual letter but critics aren't happy with worker treatment

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'He thinks that he's going to be an example and lead the minimum wage industry because somebody called him out on his bullsh*t.'

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos touted the company's base wage of $15 per hour — nearly twice the federal hourly minimum — in his 2018 letter to shareholders, released Thursday, and challenged other companies to raise their workers' pay even higher, but not everyone was convinced of the billionaire's intentions.

Amazon hourly workers lost their monthly bonuses when Bezos raised the company's base wage to $15 an hour. "You show me one letter to his shareholders where it talks about his employees wanting to commit suicide or dying inside Amazon," she said.

 

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