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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.A labor union is defined as “an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members’ interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.”
Cannabis Workers Rising (CWR) is a wing of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) involved in the cannabis industry across six states and the District of Columbia. Their website explains that the CWR is primarily involved with dispensaries, coffee shops, bakeries, patient identification centers, hydroponics stores, and growing and training facilities. Some ganjaprenuers in Washington State are now turning to the CWR to help legitimize this once-illegal sector of our economy.
The UFCW has three recruiters working in Washington state. According to Nathe Lawver, Communications Director for the UFCW Local 367, there are “a couple dozen” members, mostly in the medical marijuana sector, in the organization’s Tacoma-based branch. Cannabis Workers Rising also has several contracts awaiting approval. Nathe says the UFCW...
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