[taurath]

Here's the beaureu of labor statistics for "packers"

Warehousing and Storage Hourly mean wage -$16.05

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes537064.htm

Amazon just increased their minimum pay to $15 in 2018 after being pressured. They are the countries second largest employer. The pay is not the only issue. Being at the lowest legal possible amount of protection. Multiple investigative books and stories have come out right around 2018 which Amazon replied by graciously increasing the wages and starting a marketing campaign to fight against the public opinion on working conditions.

And before someone says it, I don't have a vendetta against Amazon specifically. I believe we should fight for worker protections and actual living wages for anyone who works full time. Amazon could be a shining beacon, but their quotas and cost-cutting at any cost leads us to a lowest common denominator society while Bezos gains another 10 billion dollars a year.

For a larger look at the implications, this author goes over a lot of the systemic problems in a podcast synopsis:

https://www.csis.org/podcasts/truth-matter/alec-macgillis-fu...