- Some
- The raises were generally between 2-4% and amounted to about 25 to 55 more cents an hour.
- The raises follow a series of high-profile attacks on the retailer's pay and treatment of its warehouse workers.
- An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider that it evaluates warehouse workers' pay annually.
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Some Amazon warehouse workers are getting raises after repeated high-profile attacks on the retailer's pay (AMZN)
Some workers in Amazon warehouses across the country are getting raises. Amazon says the raises are part of an annual review of pay, but it comes after a series high-profile attacks on the retailer's pay.
Many of Amazon's fulfillment-center employees are getting a raise.
Amazon has upped its pay for some warehouse workers.
The online retail giant has instituted pay raises for workers in some of the warehouses where the company fulfills orders, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The raises ranged between 2-4% and amounted to about
In a statement to Business Insider, an Amazon spokeswoman criticized the Post's story as not "
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"The majority of full-time fulfillment center employees receive annual wage increases which complement the standard tenure-based pay increases and performance-based bonuses," the spokeswoman said in a statement. "In the US, the average hourly wage for a full-time associate in our fulfillment centers, including cash, stock, and incentive bonuses, is over $15/hour before overtime. That's in addition to our full benefits package."
Amazon is now one of the country's largest employers and has a large network of fulfillment centers dedicated to shipping packages to customers.
The company's warehouse pay has become an especially hot topic in the wake of high-profile attacks from Sen. Bernie Sanders, who frequently makes an example of Amazon using news stories that describe poor working conditions and low pay.
Tweets from Sanders' account frequently portray Amazon as one of the biggest villains of capitalism, and they often mention the company's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, who is the richest man in the world. A recurring theme of Sanders' tweets is Bezos' extreme wealth compared with what Amazon's lowest-paid workers make.
Sanders has also introduced the Stop BEZOS Bill, which would impose a 100% tax on government assistance received by workers at companies with more than 500 employees.
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