UFCW LOCAL 881'S FACEBOOK PAGE Employees at a cannabis dispensary in Springfield, Illinois are voting on whether to unionize. Workers at Ascend Springfield’s downtown location said Wednesday that lax COVID-19 precautions and a lack of guaranteed sick time during the pandemic pushed them towards organizing. Andrew Feeney, who works at Ascend Springfield, said he enjoyed the job at first. “Since COVID has come around, it has steadily degraded. And we're just fighting to get that back and get it to the place we know it can be,” Feeney told reporters at a news conference Wednesday. A spokesperson for Ascend declined to comment.