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Toward a More Perfect Pot Union
An update of recent union activity and victories, with interviews featuring some of the leading union leaders representing cannabis workers from coast-to-coast.
November 16, 2022
Worker Illegally Fired from Cannabis Company for Union Involvement Wins Job Back
In a win for workers’ rights and good-paying jobs—a worker union representing around 11,000 workers in New England was able to save the job of a worker who was allegedly wrongfully terminated.
December 30, 2021
Dispensary Workers in Chicago Are Excited to Join the Teamsters Union
Budtenders at a Modern Cannabis location in Chicago, Illinois have voted to become the first group of cannabis workers to join the Teamsters Union.
June 3, 2021
Colorado Cannabis Company, Nature’s Root Labs, Breaks New Ground by Unionizing
Nature's Root Labs has just unionized their employees in two states.
May 27, 2021
Update: Illinois’ Cresco Labs Cannabis Workers Vote to Unionize
The state sees its first win in the cannabis labor movement.
January 16, 2020
Workers Will Vote Today On Joining Illinois’ First Cannabis Union
Bernie Sanders even tweeted his support for Cresco Labs’ organizing campaign.
January 14, 2020
Over Two Dozen Medical Cannabis Growers in Pennsylvania Unionize
The employees of Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Solutions are now unionized!
October 8, 2019
California Cities Seeing Cannabis Industry Workers Unionizing
United Food and Commercial Workers are setting a precedent for the cannabis industry.
August 19, 2019
Regulating Weed in California is A Daunting Task and Now the Unions are Sparring
California has until January 2018 to figure out a whole lot of complicated issues on how to regulate…
February 6, 2017
Federal Reserve Denies Cannabis Credit Union
Despite hollow gestures by the federal government that suggest they are willing to allow the banking industry to…
August 3, 2015