Sen. Marco Rubio endorses Amazon warehouse union drive in surprise op-ed

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Writing in USA Today on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made a surprise endorsement of a fledgling union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. In the op-ed, Rubio frames the union drive as a necessary response to the encroaching power of Amazon, a longtime target for Republicans.

“When the conflict is between working Americans and a company whose leadership has decided to wage culture war against working-class values, the choice is easy — I support the workers,” Rubio writes in the op-ed. “And that’s why I stand with those at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse today.”

Rubio says Amazon “wages culture war against working-class values”

Workers at the Bessemer warehouse are in the process of voting on whether to unionize, as overseen by the...

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