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That attempt ended quickly, though, after the cultivation workers NLRB application was voluntarily withdrawn the next month.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
Thursday, May 13, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people on Thursday, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings.
Today is a great day for America, President Joe Biden said during a Rose Garden address heralding the new guidance, an event where he and his staff went without masks. Hours earlier in the Oval Office, where Biden was meeting with vaccinated Republican lawmakers, he led the group in removing their masks when the guidance was announced.
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Macy s cannot offer the use of its Scan and Pay app for purchases from departments where employees make commissions, and must pay back commissions on such purchases, a labor relations arbitrator has ruled, according to a document of the decision.
The determination applies to three collective bargaining agreements between Macy s and employees at stores in Boston and other New England cities, according to the ruling, a copy of which was provided by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
But it also should have implications for the department store s 125,000 employees and other retail workers, the UFCW said in a press release. Macy s didn t immediately return a request for comment.
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