Amazon increase hourly pay

[POSTMAN]

Postal workers around the world are only second to NHS (and other countries equivalent) front line staff.
Your average delivery driver delivering packets has it much easier than you lot.

[FacesOfStone]

Less hours wtf you getting that ?

Did I say your office? Trust me, it is happening and it will be costing the company a fortune.

Yep true

I've no doubt it will be offset though by the increase in mail volumes. Hand posted parcels and letters are through the roof. Every box I empty has parcels and stamped letters bursting out of it. These are boxes that would normally have 2-10 letters a day in them.

I absolutely agree with you I have just finished a collection shift and every box must have had a minimum of 30 letters, these are the boxes which would some days struggle to make the 5 mark. In the town box I had to use a full sack and that gets emptied 3 times a day!

Yesterday was by far the busiest Tuesday I can remember, Christmas aside, and extra letters were a substantial contributor to that. If I’d followed the advice and taken door to doors to every calling point, I’d never have gotten finished.

[jmcg]

As an mc worker I can confirm the enormous rise in parcels,tracked in particular, place is full of agency staff some working 7 days a week...it seems like Christmas on steroids! Royal Mail must be making a fortune right now....

[Woody Guthrie]

Slightly off topic but saw a post on another forum which suggested Amazon are taking looking after their staff more seriously than RM during this pandemic.
Here's the post:

They do now. There are temperature checks for all staff upon arrival every day, face masks issued every day, hand sanitiser and wipes everywhere, canteen tables split up for 2m distancing rules, breaks extended and split up more so that there are less people on them at once. Canteen food is now portioned into "to go" boxes to minimise contact. Staff now work at every other station to enforce distancing too, reducing site productivity. Security no longer search people leaving. They are deadly serious about it all now.

I can vouch for all of the above being true.
I can also add that they're paying their sub contracted cleaners an extra £2 per hour which is a nice touch and not something they had to do. What are our cleaners on?

[smok3y666]

Slightly off topic but saw a post on another forum which suggested Amazon are taking looking after their staff more seriously than RM during this pandemic.
Here's the post:

They do now. There are temperature checks for all staff upon arrival every day, face masks issued every day, hand sanitiser and wipes everywhere, canteen tables split up for 2m distancing rules, breaks extended and split up more so that there are less people on them at once. Canteen food is now portioned into "to go" boxes to minimise contact. Staff now work at every other station to enforce distancing too, reducing site productivity. Security no longer search people leaving. They are deadly serious about it all now.

Obviously we do some of this, but Amazon appear to be more on the ball.

Go tell Pullinger because he thinks he's done a great job of making sure we're all safe.

[FacesOfStone]

Slightly off topic but saw a post on another forum which suggested Amazon are taking looking after their staff more seriously than RM during this pandemic.
Here's the post:

They do now. There are temperature checks for all staff upon arrival every day, face masks issued every day, hand sanitiser and wipes everywhere, canteen tables split up for 2m distancing rules, breaks extended and split up more so that there are less people on them at once. Canteen food is now portioned into "to go" boxes to minimise contact. Staff now work at every other station to enforce distancing too, reducing site productivity. Security no longer search people leaving. They are deadly serious about it all now.

Obviously we do some of this, but Amazon appear to be more on the ball.

Go tell Pullinger because he thinks he's done a great job of making sure we're all safe.

He’s probably been extended an invitation to fly over to Rico Towers as a thank you after this is all done. I see a future rife with “now is not the time to quibble, let’s get the business back on track”.

[Ali831]

If amazon are getting an extra £2 an hour what was their hourly rate to start with?
tesco staff are getting a 10% bonus for all hours worked for approx a 6 week period. Sounds good but as their hourly rate is only £9 it only means an extra 90p per hour. Staff have also been contacted that testing is being rolled out to more key workers so tesco are to start trials this week in one region for staff showing symptoms not sure what that will entail.

[Chelseablue]

At least there bosses are appreciative of there efforts knowing they are putting themselves at risk every day .

[FacesOfStone]

If amazon are getting an extra £2 an hour what was their hourly rate to start with?
tesco staff are getting a 10% bonus for all hours worked for approx a 6 week period. Sounds good but as their hourly rate is only £9 it only means an extra 90p per hour. Staff have also been contacted that testing is being rolled out to more key workers so tesco are to start trials this week in one region for staff showing symptoms not sure what that will entail.

It’s shouldn’t be a race to the bottom; we shouldn’t be satisfied with a shoddy deal just because others have it worse. That’s the sort of mentality that Rico & his crew will be hoping we adopt.

[Ali831]

If amazon are getting an extra £2 an hour what was their hourly rate to start with?
tesco staff are getting a 10% bonus for all hours worked for approx a 6 week period. Sounds good but as their hourly rate is only £9 it only means an extra 90p per hour. Staff have also been contacted that testing is being rolled out to more key workers so tesco are to start trials this week in one region for staff showing symptoms not sure what that will entail.

It’s shouldn’t be a race to the bottom; we shouldn’t be satisfied with a shoddy deal just because others have it worse. That’s the sort of mentality that Rico & his crew will be hoping we adopt.

Never said anything about a race to the bottom nor meant to infer one or others having it worse. I'm just stating what I know and asking out of interest what amazon actually earn a genuine question.

[ssdd]

If amazon are getting an extra £2 an hour what was their hourly rate to start with?
tesco staff are getting a 10% bonus for all hours worked for approx a 6 week period. Sounds good but as their hourly rate is only £9 it only means an extra 90p per hour. Staff have also been contacted that testing is being rolled out to more key workers so tesco are to start trials this week in one region for staff showing symptoms not sure what that will entail.

It’s shouldn’t be a race to the bottom; we shouldn’t be satisfied with a shoddy deal just because others have it worse. That’s the sort of mentality that Rico & his crew will be hoping we adopt.

Never said anything about a race to the bottom nor meant to infer one or others having it worse. I'm just stating what I know and asking out of interest what amazon actually earn a genuine question.

It's in another article posted earlier. £9.50ph or £10.50ph london weighting.

The £2ph increase works out to a 21.1% increase at £9.50ph, and a 19.05% increase at £10.50ph, if I'm calculating it correctly.

However, Amazon can easily afford this...more so than most other companies, including ours.