The push to unionize cannabis workers, explained - Cannabis News

Weed workers across the country are unionizing, and California just made it easier for them.

On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a requirement that all cannabis stores enter into so-called “labor peace agreements” as soon as they have 20 or more employees.

California is now one of two states — New York is the other — that requires licensed weed shops to make a deal with a formal labor union in which managers promise not to stop workers from joining a union.

And in exchange, organizers won’t encourage labor strikes against the company.

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Alexia Fernández Campbell ~ Vox.com ~