Marco Rubio Backs Amazon Workers’ Union Push, Citing ‘Culture War Against Working-Class Values’ (subscription)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/12/2021 | By Siobhan Hughes

[NohSpinZone]

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) voiced his support for a union-organizing drive at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Alabama, accusing the e-commerce giant of waging a culture war that hurts its workers and the economy.

In an op-ed article in USA Today on Friday, Mr. Rubio said that adversarial relations between workers and companies could harm the country’s competitiveness. But he said he would support employees “when the conflict is between working Americans and a company whose leadership has decided to wage culture war against working-class values.”

“The days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over,” Mr. Rubio wrote, citing what he called Amazon’s anticompetitive strategies against smaller companies and the removal of conservative content from its site as among the reasons he was backing the workers’ effort to unionize.

[NohSpinZone]

WTF? I get that Amazon is waging a cultural war but this is not the right approach to get back at them. Ever hear of cutting off your nose to smite your face?

[BenLurkin]

What he is saying makes no sense.

Unless he thinks liberty is antithetical to “middle class values”

[rlmorel]

Rubio. That says it all.

[qwerty1234]

Not supportive of unions at all, but in this case I will make an exception - almost anything that destroys the wealth of these leftist billionaires I am OK with.

[BrexitBen]

Rubio is a Lindsey Graham RINO.

[JonPreston]

Here comes Lil’ Marco’s regular 4 year presidential wannabe push.

[Seruzawa]

Anything to mess with those liberal scum who run amazon.

[DoughtyOne]

Rubio, failing to annoy, 000 days in a row.

[DoughtyOne]

So you’re also happy having the union dictate to all the Amazon
employees who to vote for?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Micro Rubio needs to be replaced in 2022 along with a slew of other Assistant Democrats.

[qwerty1234]

>>So you’re also happy having the union dictate to all the Amazon employees who to vote for?

Wow, must have missed the part where it says union members are no longer able to make their own decisions on who to vote for...maybe we didn’t read the same article?

[DoughtyOne]

About 90% of union members vote Leftist.

It has been a major problem across the board.

You didn’t know that?

Teacher’s unions
Auto unions
Government worker unions

Of course they weren’t going to mention that here.

[ScubaDiver]

If there’s anyway Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Unions and Marco Rubio can all lose in this scenario, I’m all for it.

I’m petty that way.

[Amendment10]

Desperate Democratic vote-counting fraud aside, the only union that the states have expressly constitutionally protected is the Union of states.

So Sen. Rubio evidently doesn’t understand (ignores?) that labor unions don’t have any more political power than the votes that all legal citizen voters have.

[monkeyshine]

I dunno. I respect the workers rights to peaceably assemble and affiliate with any group they want. Or to not affiliate and pay no dues if they don’t want to. Not a huge fan of unions per se; they are a relic and mostly unnecessary since there are so many labor and employment practices laws protecting workers.

I wonder if Rubio isn’t doing a test balloon for the GOP; playing the long game to see if the GOP can court union voters. Long shot I’d say but who knows why Rubio from FL is getting involved in Alabama unionizing. I don’t really believe it has to do with getting back at Bezos.

[pdunkin]

No, no. I recall a talk show host referring to him as a “legitimate full-throated conservative and a disciple or Ronald Regan”.

[escapefromboston]

I hate unions slightly less than Amazon so I hope they do unionize.

[JesusIsLord]

“The days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over”

I would agree if the statement read:

"The days of conservatives being taken for granted by greedy, monopolistic, billionaire oligarchs are over”.

[cranked]

The Idiot is a R I N O.

[catnipman]

“Not supportive of unions at all, but in this case I will make an exception”

ditto ... just a few minutes ago we were discussing how amazon treats their employees and subcontractors like shite ... we feel really sorry for all of their delivery folks who literally run between front doors and their delivery vehicles to make their metric ... we were saying that there’s no company that needs to be unionized more than amazon ...