It’s Day 32 of the Nabisco strike in Portland. Picket lines swell every Saturday, when members of unions, groups and the community join together in a support rally for the striking Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 364. The message is clear from rally speakers, picketers’ placards…
While one unionization attempt by Denver marijuana cultivation workers has died, two more have since sprouted at dispensaries within the same company. And those efforts are still alive.
In February, workers for a growing operation owned by TweedLeaf, a network of marijuana stores and production operations, voted in favor of certifying with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco, and Grain Millers Union Local 26 (BCTGM) chapter, and filed for approval with the National Labor Relations Board. If their campaign had been successful, the TweedLeaf workers would have been the first to unionize in Colorado s marijuana industry.
That attempt ended quickly, though, after the cultivation workers NLRB application was voluntarily withdrawn the next month. But the BCTGM group then filed two more certification applications on behalf of employees at TweedLeaf s two Denver stores, according to NLRB case files. TweedLeaf CEO John Kaweske confirms the unionization bids at two TweedLeaf locations a
Despite being the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, Colorado still doesn t have a certified marijuana workers union. That could change, though, if a National Labor Relations Board hearing goes favorably for a group of workers at a Denver cultivation warehouse.
After a hearing scheduled for March 11, the National Labor Relations Board will decide whether workers at a Denver marijuana grow owned by TweedLeaf will be recognized for a union certification vote with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco, and Grain Millers Union Local 26 chapter. If the NLRB approves the move and 75 percent of the growing operation s employees vote in favor of certification, the TweedLeaf employees would become the first marijuana workers union in Colorado, after several failed attempts across the state.
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FAIR LAWN Randy Rauco was in awe on the very first day of his new job at the Nabisco Brand Factory in 1987. He was a young man, in his 20s, and had never seen anything like it.
The giant tower, visible from outside, where the raw materials are stored. The huge mixers that prepare batter for the molding machines. The immense ovens, the length of a football field, that send the aroma of baking cookies to surrounding neighborhoods. It’s weird, when buying a package of Oreos, Ritz or Premium crackers, you don’t think about how they made the stuff on such a large scale,” Rauco said.