Amazon boosts its minimum wage to $15 an hour
Amazon boosts its minimum wage to $15 an hour
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Amazon boosts its minimum wage to $15 an hour

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[MUSIC] All right, lastly, let's talk about Amazon, the company has been under fire for the wages and the treatment of it's workers. But today responded by waging it's minimum wage to $15 in the US. Ben, is this enough? Well, that's really like, the fight for $15 movement has really been pushing for $15 an hour, so. This should definitely quell some of the critics from Amazon. Bernie Sanders who has been a very prominent and loud critic to Amazon about this. He said let's give credit where credit is due. Jeff Bezos did exactly the right thing according to him, so as far as one of the biggest critics is concerned, they feel like this is a pretty good move and They;re calling on other major corporations to do the same thing. Right. They are advocating for this $15 federal minimum wage level. Right? Yeah. They are calling on Walmart to do the same thing, fast food companies like McDonald's so we'll We'll see who else ends up moving closer to that $15 an hour. All right, for a full coverage check us out on cnet, I'm Roger Chang. I'm Ben Fox Reuben. Thanks for listening. [BLANK_AUDIO]

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