Medical-marijuana workers unionizing in colorado

[NOKUY]

Medical-marijuana workers unionizing in colorado

interesting....

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19107764?source=rss

The state's largest labor union today announced that it has hundreds of new members from the medical-marijuana industry.

Local 7 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union said in a statement that the new members come from a "comprehensive cross section" of the industry. The union, which has 25,000 members statewide, said it would announce more details at a news conference Monday. The union put the total number of jobs in the medical-marijuana industry in Colorado at 8,000, though it is unclear how it came to that number.

In the union's announcement, Steve Ackerman of the Organic Alternatives dispensary in Fort Collins said the pairing of the UFCW and the medical-marijuana industry are a natural fit. Kim Cordova, the union's president, echoed that.

"We are the retail food, pharmacy, agriculture, food processing, and healthcare Union in Colorado and around the nation," Cordova said in the announcement.

The move solidifies a surprising allegiance that has developed between marijuana advocates and the UFCW in recent years.

Last year, hundreds of California medical-marijuana industry workers joined the UFCW. That included dozens at businesses run by an Oakland cannabis entrepreneur who was the main backer of an initiative to legalize marijuana in that state. The UFCW endorsed the initiative and took an active role in the campaign, which was ultimately unsuccessful.

The medical-marijuana unionization in Colorado comes as cannabis activists here are working to put a marijuana-legalization measure on the 2012 statewide ballot. Today's announcement from Local 7, though, made no mention of the Colorado legalization campaign.

 

[NOKUY]

cpl comments from that article:

Good News for those in that industry. First, legal clout will improve ten-fold. Next: as the industry matures, the usual suspects will realize the benefits of ownership in the industry. The ability to organize and negotiate insures a future living wage and benefits for those who must work the daily grind and deal with the general public.
As the industry matures, industry owners will be forced to provide more than the license to be in business and a minimum wage job sans benefits to the green collar worker.
Finally, if you do not use the industry, unionization does not affect you and really is not your concern. 8)

 

[NOKUY]

Drug addicts of the world unite !! What part of Federal Offense fails to penetrate the haze? We just had a pothead run his car into another car on the highway. The other car smashed the guard rail and the pothead kept driving. When the cops pulled him over, he had no idea there had been an accident. Just another contribution to society by the druggie crowd.

thefuck

 

[NOKUY]

Drug dealers are unionizing ?? !!! LOL, the democratic party shows true colors once again. Thugs and more thugs.

What a disgrace.

thefuckagain

 

[NOKUY]

hmmm

As is typical in recent history, organized labor will collect dues from anyone they can. I can't wait to see how they'll ignore their new members when the feds start prosecuting them. There is absolutely nothing for the MMJ workers to gain by paying dues to these jerks. The union will not do a thing for them when the S&*t hits the fan, and it will.

Legalize it, tax it, and regulate it but do you really want to see union involvement in this industry? What a sad joke. Organizing MMJ workers. What could possibly be the upside of this?

 

[budbasket]

half the people on this site don't want legalization passed, there making too much money. It sucks but thats what happens, once our "gardeners" are regulated from seed to flower only then will our movement ever take hold. Why can't we realize that medicine is medicine, not produced in a basement, and wine can be wine for everyone to enjoy. Call it what it is and stop bullshitting. IMO.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

i guess all the $10/hr slave wage warehouse workers are tired of doing all the work while the millionaire investors sit back and reap the profits.....