{"id":32795,"date":"2021-03-12T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32795"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:19:47","slug":"afl-cio-hits-rubio-over-union-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32795","title":{"rendered":"AFL-CIO hits Rubio over union endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL-CIO knocked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for backing the push for Amazon unionization at an Alabama plant while simultaneously opposing a federal bill aimed at offering protections for employees trying to unionize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPositive words for workers organizing at Amazon are welcome, but positive actions for workers organizing everywhere distinguish true champions from political pandering,\u201d AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you oppose the PRO Act, then you\u2019re not pro-worker and you\u2019re not pro-union,\u201d Trumka added.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio became the first major GOP lawmaker to back the unionization fight at Amazon\u2019s Bessemer, Ala., plant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zdldvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrrmwdrw_ksrlvvmhmjlslvvffvmt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zdldvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrrmwdrw_ksrlvvmhmjlslvvffvmt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615679672740000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKZGyPkwZoSZIMuB6mFXN8_3FP9g\">in a USA Today op-ed<\/a>\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The piece did not defend the nascent union effort because of its push for worker rights. Rather, Rubio\u2019s argument focused on Amazon being an ally \u201cof the left in the culture war.\u201d At one point he said that \u201cadversarial relations between labor and management are wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL-CIO knocked Sen. Marco Rubio&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32796,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795\/revisions\/32796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}