Why Cannabis Workers Are Unionizing Across The Country
Employees want to secure their future in the industry
In an effort to lend even more legitimacy to the cannabis industry, its workers are unionizing more and more in legalized states. And the pandemic, like just about everything else, has a lot to do with it.
According to Vice’s Motherboard, there are now more than 10,000 cannabis workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, which has been organizing in the marijuana space for more than a decade.
Workers uniting
With recreational marijuana legalized in 19 states (and growing), cannabis sales rose in 2020 and again in 2021. But that increase in profits for corporate brands and retail stores did not always trickle down to workers. Now employees from cannabis retail to cultivation are organizing to secure workplace contracts, especially in states like California, Illinois, and Massachusetts.
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