Amazon

Amazon now has more than 800,000 employees in the US and about half are blue collar. The average blue collar worker earns $15 per hour. If they raised that to $25 it would cost the company $8 billion. Last year Amazon had a profit of $25 billion. 6,000 workers at an Alabama warehouse are voting to join the union. If they succeed it will spread to other warehouses as Alabama is not a pro union area. In addition the union's success will spread to other companies like Walmart. This will mean only slightly higher prices for consumers but give these workers a chance at a decent life.