Trump’s Tight Labor Market Drives $15 Wage Hikes for Amazon Workers
2 Oct 2018323
Multinational tech corporation Amazon has increased its minimum wage for its workers to $15 an hour, a benefit of President Donald Trump’s tightened labor market.
This week, Amazon executives announced $15 minimum wage for all U.S. workers, including workers with full-time and part-time hours and those who are temporary workers and working in seasonal positions. The pay increase will also be extended to Whole Foods workers, which Amazon now owns.
The wage hike for Amazon and Whole Foods American workers comes just before the holidays when both companies are likely to need more workers. Rather than importing foreign workers, Trump’s tight labor market is forcing corporations to raise their wages to attract Americans.
Nonetheless, Amazon has continued to import foreign workers to take high-paying, white-collar jobs at the tech conglomerate. In 2017, alone, Amazon tried to import more than 2,500 foreign workers on H-1B visas, more than any other tech company in the country.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/02/trumps-tight-labor-market-drives-15-wage-hikes-for-amazon-workers/