Escalating a push by ambitious Republicans to spotlight American workers, Sen. Marco Rubio today will side with the union in a high-stakes organizing campaign at an Amazon facility outside Birmingham, Ala.
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Driving the news: “[T]he days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over,” Rubio writes in a USA Today op-ed posting this morning. “I stand with [workers] at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse.”
Rubio writes that one of his “earliest political memories was marching the picket line with my dad in a Culinary Workers Union strike when he worked as a hotel bartender.”
“[T]he lesson I took from it — all workers deserve respect — has stuck with me all throughout my career,” Rubio writes.
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