Tag: CBT > Cannabis Employees Unionizing: Page 3

Arizona
Curaleaf Dispensary Workers Strike in Arizona; State Lawmakers Support Them
The multistate cannabis operator says it respects its workers’ rights, but a local union claims the company fired an employee for labor peace activity.
September 18, 2023
Curaleaf Adobestock 613813897
Illinois
Teamsters, Green Thumb Industries Ratify Contracts in Illinois
The agreements come at RISE dispensary locations in Joliet and Niles, where a strike occurred earlier this year.
September 6, 2023
Cannabis Plants Adobe Stock Openrangestock Resized
Illinois
Teamsters, Verano Reach Tentative Agreements in Illinois
The bargain agreements impact retail workers at Zen Leaf dispensaries in the Chicago area.
July 20, 2023
Mj Adobestock 123630911
Illinois
Union Files Spying Charges Against Green Thumb Industries
Teamsters Local 777 filed the additional unfair labor practice charges against the multistate cannabis operator in Illinois.
June 8, 2023
Green Thumb's RISE dispensary workers strike for 13 days in late April in the Chicago area.
Interviews & Opinion
State Regulation of Cannabis Labor Relations: Lessons From Curaleaf’s New Jersey Experience
Curaleaf's recent licensing renewal episode in New Jersey calls into question whether state policies on labor relation compliance matters are overreaching what has generally been federal purview.
June 6, 2023
Scale Adobe Stock
Illinois
Green Thumb Workers Strike at 3 Dispensaries in Illinois
The unionized workers at a trio of RISE retail facilities in the Chicago metropolitan area coordinated the strikes through Teamsters Local 777.
April 19, 2023
Two retail workers from Green Thumb’s RISE Colorado dispensary in Joliet, Ill., wear hats with the company’s banded logos while they hold up Teamster Local 777 union branded shirts following a vote to unionize in June 2022.
Illinois
Curaleaf’s Refusal to Bargain With Union ‘Unlawful’
The National Labor Relations Board ruled this week that the multistate cannabis operator has engaged in unfair labor practices in Chicago.
December 9, 2022
Curaleaf workers in Skokie, Ill., followed in the footsteps of Curaleaf workers from Chicago, Worth and Mokena to vote in favor of joining the UFCW Local 881 last year.
California
Flora Terra Cannabis Workers Join Teamsters
The overwhelming vote in favor of representation is the first in the region.
October 27, 2022
New Jersey
Curaleaf Retail Workers Join Local Union in Edgewater Park, NJ
Roughly 35 dispensary workers from the multistate operator’s location in South Jersey voted to join the UFCW Local 360.
October 24, 2022
Canna Worker Adobe Stock329120062
Rhode Island
After 16 Months, Dispensary Workers Ratify Union Contract in Rhode Island
The contract at Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center marks the first collective bargaining agreement for medical cannabis retail in the state.
August 18, 2022
Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center workers in Portsmouth, R.I., stand with their newly ratified union contracts in hand.
Missouri
Fired Dispensary Workers Claim Union Leadership as Root of Terminations
Two employees at the Root 66 medical cannabis dispensary in St. Louis were fired for “spying” the month before a union vote.
April 26, 2022
Root 66 dispensary workers celebrate their union election April 4 in St. Louis.
Michigan
Michigan Cannabis Retail Workers Vote to Unionize; Owner Offers Support
Dispensary employees at a provisioning center that is set to open on 4/20 in the southwest part of the state authorized UFCW union representation.
April 19, 2022
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 951 announced April 18 that workers at Heritage Provisioning, a Battle Creek retail cannabis facility, became the first such group to authorize union representation in West Michigan.
Previous Page
Page 3 of 4
Next Page