This is interesting….
Republican lawmakers seldom back union and labor out loud….
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Friday threw his support behind the Amazon workers in Alabama who are fighting to unionize, because he said the company “has decided to wage culture war against working-class values”
“The Silicon Valley titan uses anticompetitive strategies to crush small businesses, bans conservative books and blocks traditional charities from participating in its AmazonSmile program. Not surprisingly, it has also bowed to China’s censorship demands,” he wrote in a USA Today op-ed.
He is the first prominent Republican to come out in support of the unionization efforts, though he framed his backing as a move to keep in check a company that is “headquartered in America, but it considers itself a citizen of the world.”….
image…NYMag.Com
So he only supports worker’s rights out of spite. Not because he actually gives a damn about them.
I doubt there will be a big move in the Trump Party to emulate Rubio in this regard.
This is sort of like a progressive Democrat announcing his embrace of the NRA.
Update on the Amazon Union vote…
A closely watched union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., is coming to a close today. More than 5,800 workers at the fulfillment center are voting on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. If the union drive is successful, the Bessemer facility would become the e-commerce giant’s first union shop in the U.S.
But the stakes in this battle go far beyond Bessemer, as our Rebecca Rainey wrote from the city on Friday. “If the push in red-state Alabama is successful, it could galvanize more organizing efforts at Amazon and other large retailers across the country. If it fails, it could become a lightning rod for Democrats’ efforts to push through one of the broadest expansions of collective bargaining rights in nearly a century — yet, at the same time, embolden a triumphal business community to harden its stance against organized labor.”
MORE: “’We Not Human At All.’ Why the Fight to Unionize an Alabama Amazon Warehouse Could Spur a Labor Union Resurgence,” from TIME
AND: “Why the Amazon union vote is bigger than Amazon,” from The Verge…
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