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ICYMI: Rubio: I Stand With Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer Warehouse

Mar 12, 2021 | Press Releases

Amazon should face unionization drive without Republican support
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
March 12, 2021
USA Today
 
Amazon may be headquartered in America, but it considers itself a citizen of the world.
Now, the company is facing a unionization effort at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.

 
For decades, companies like Amazon have been allies of the left in the culture war, but when their bottom line is threatened they turn to conservatives to save them. Republicans have rightly understood the dangers posed by the unchecked influence of labor unions. Adversarial relations between labor and management are wrong. They are wrong for both workers and our nation’s economic competitiveness. 
 
But the days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over.
 
Here’s my standard: 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. And that’s why I stand with those at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse today.
 
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