State's medical marijuana workers unionizing

[kentuck]

This may have been posted already? Interesting development, I think.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/union-126725-marijuana-medical.html

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The state's largest labor union announced Thursday 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.

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[meow mix]

1. id guess an average of 1 million jobs per state. minus the jobs lost in law enforcement.

if legalized

[felix_numinous]

2. Way to go!

[fizzgig]

3. i live in co and was very interested to see this

there's a measure on the ballot in my city to ban mmj dispensaries and the local rag did the same story. this is what the former cop/mayor, one of the people who got the ban on the ballot, had to say about it:

"Unions are about making money, and that's what marijuana stores are about. They don't care about the patients," Martinez said.

:puke: