Paying Dues For Nothing? Cannabis Workers At Cresco Labs’ Illinois Facility Leave The Union, Get 15% Raises
Marijuana workers at Cresco Labs’ (OTC:CRLBF) production facility in Joliet, Illinois, recently voted to leave their union – United Food & Commerical Workers, first reported Crain’s Chicago Business.
Employees at Cresco’s facility in Joliet were the first cannabis workers in Illinois to unionize, and now have voted 97-34 to decertify their unit. Jonathan Keselenko, a partner in Foley Hoag’s cannabis practice in Boston, told the outlet that this moves seems to indicate that the excitement for unionization among cannabis workers is fading. In April, employees at Cresco’s Massachusetts cultivation facility voted to de-unionize, instead of negotiating another labor deal as its contract neared expiration.
“No doubt they were an early target of unions who saw them as ripe for organizing,” Keselenko said. “Now the industry is seeing a lot of the kinds of issues that have happened in other industries, like Starbucks, where a number of them have asked to decertify the union.”
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