Amazon took to Twitter on Monday to refute a claim Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made during her interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the company pays its workers “starvation wages.”
On Sunday, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked Ocasio-Cortez whether Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would still remain a billionaire under a “true progressive program”, to which she responded that she is not as concerned “whether Jeff Bezos is a billionaire or not” and is more concerned over whether “your average Amazon worker is making a living wage, if they have guaranteed health care and if they can send their kids to college tuition-free.
More than 42% of all working Americans earn less than the $15/hour Amazon pays entry-level fulfillment center employees. And all our employees get top-tier benefits. I’d urge @AOC to focus on raising the federal minimum wage instead of making stuff up about Amazon. https://t.co/ClhFfOrywd Amazon announced in 2018 that it would raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour for all U.S. employees after yielding to pressure from critics.
Get a better job. Get more educated. Do something.
Drivers making $18 by hour and they got 40 to 50 packages to be deliver in 3 hours
It’s great that these dems elect the untreated mentally ill to rant and rave. Least she can still make a drink after this schism is over n maybe do a little stripping
Hahahahaha
aliasvaughn She really needs to apologize on this one.
RufferRobert While they do a better job than some $15/hour is NOT enough to support one person in major metropolitan areas. It should be a liveable wage..not a wage people have been brainwashed to think “is reasonable”. Individuals subsidize employers who won’t pay a living wage. We all do.
Yeah, nah. I actually agree with AOC on this one.
It would've been impossible for constituents in that NewYork district to elect anyone more ignorant & possible of hurting their own constituents more than AOC. 28000Jobs amazon
79th BS statement by AOC this month! But who is counting!
Plus they give their workers diapers so come on. By the way since the raise are they gonna reinstate the 1 share of stock every year and 5 stocks every 10 yrs? Or is the raise just a replacement?
Ay mija, sigue boconeando de lo qie no sabes. Y que ponerte a empujar tu agenda con críticas a Amazon. 🤦🏻♀️ You are dealing with the big boys now niña de ñoñerías.
Amazon can deny this all it wants. Most giant companies pay talented workers just over the minimum wage & salary for that position. It’s got to be fair wage, not just a fair amount.
Funny I talked to Amazon delivery guys and ask them how things are going and they said never better.
She should run out every business in New York that doesn’t pay their employees as much as she thinks they should.
It’s all smoke and mirrors with Alex. She’s just trying to justify her latest request for a pay raise. Her type of comments keep her in the news, another method for pushing her socialist agenda.
COA is making Amazon & those who work for them enemies of the DNC. realDonaldTrump is already going to win re-election in a landslide, she is just making the red-wave bigger, thank you COA.
Hey AOC don't piss off the Washington Post!
I am sure she was getting $15 an hour plus her benefits when she was working as a barmaid she needs to go back scuse me
aliasvaughn Amazon was paying $11 per hour. Richest man on the planet Earth owns this company. Google it.
aliasvaughn This woman is a nut job.
If she is what is a representative in congress, the country will fail. The intellectuals need to step up, but again George Wills comments about Trump I wonder if there are any intellectuals.
AOC destroyed an entire community in Islip New York, killing thousands of high paying jobs that would of benefit the entire community. Lake City Florida welcomed Amazon, now they are getting thousands of jobs that will benefit their community.
Ok let them prove it
AOC is a pathetic liar.AOC
Just enough to live and not to die on that spot !
ABC(D) is corrupted they wont even call a marxist a marxist.
Enjoy your one term sweetie.
Ocasio-Cortez just spews crap out of her mouth when she talks. She loves how all her fairy unicorns will solve the world's problems.
aliasvaughn AOC issued a public response on Twitter SEVEN HOURS ago. Why aren't you including it as an update to this article?!
This is the lady who said that selling cauliflower is racism and a form of oppression
What did she base her assertion upon?
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wonder how congressmen and ladies would do with starvation wages
Ok, but where tho?
Gee,,, it would be nice if she did some actual research and discovered what the facts are before making that kind of comment but today it's so much easier to get triggered.
She doesn’t have the slightest idea of what “starving” is like...