- Which side are you on for gig economy ? Gig workers have been demanding respectable wages and Uber/ Lyft/ Doordash have been fighting against it. It is very surprising that mostly left leaning tech industry and engineers have kept their mouth shut on this. Historically, same type of people have called out Walmart and others for exploting
- link Sanders takes aim at exploitative corporations “On September 5 we are going to introduce legislation to end the absurdity of middle class taxpayers having to subsidize large, profitable corporations, many of which are owned by billionaires. If Amazon, Walmart and other corporations won’t pay their workers a living wage, our bill would establish
- link Good or bad? Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 Just curious how this will affect Amazon and if it will cause prices to increase much if at all? Have employees at Walmart seen this impact their business at all since raising their minimum wage too? I assume Target is the next to be pressured to raise their minimum wage to $15/hour if they haven’t
- link Walmart closing 63 SAMs club stores https://amp.businessinsider.com/walmart-suddenly-closes-sams-club-stores-2018-1 What do you guys think? This coincides with the news that Walmart is raising minimum wages to $11/hr.