AAWH - More Cannabis Workers Tricked By Alleged Management-Aligned Or Fake Marijuana Unions | Benzinga
"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in his 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Celebrated as a prominent civil rights leader, MLK was also a passionate supporter of labor unions, calling them America’s first anti-poverty program.
This view is still supported by many politicians and university professors who view labor unions as responsible for a strong middle class.
There’s no doubt that every industry that can be dominated by large corporations should have labor unions to unite workers, giving them the power to fight for the same goal. But, when the industry is young, such as cannabis, unionization efforts are still developing and face many challenges.
On of them is the rise of so-called "fake unions,” writes MJBizDaily’s Chris Roberts whose research revealed, among other issues, that there are two competing labor organizations with signed workers at an Ascend dispensary, which does business under a New York-based multistate operator Ascend Wellness (OTC: AAWH).
Not The First Fake Cannabis Unions
Part of the workers at Ascend Montclair in New Jersey are unionized with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), while some budtenders are with an outfit called Cannabis Engineers Extractors and Distributors (CEED) with a local unit number 420. Per MJBiz's report, the UFCW came after workers ...