Teamsters Local 777 has reached tentative agreements for cannabis consultants and agents-in-charge at Zen Leaf dispensaries in Chicago and Schaumburg, Ill. Zen Leaf’s parent company, Verano VRNOF, is the third multi-state operator that Local 777 has successfully bargained agreements with after launching a campaign to organize the cannabis industry less than three years ago.
“This contract includes monumental improvements that the workers on this committee fought incredibly hard to achieve, and it’s been a pleasure working alongside such a dynamic, energetic, brilliant, and tenacious group of trade unionists,” stated Jim Glimco, president of Local 777. “If past is prologue, the future of the Chicago cannabis industry belongs to us.”
Improvements included in the agreement include wage increases ranging from 17% to 20% over the next three years, paid time off, employer-funded retirement contributions, overtime allocated by seniority, and the replacement of “at-will” employment with a just process for addressing disciplinary matters.
The Zen Leaf workers will vote on ratifying the two contracts within the next two weeks.
Recent Teamster Activity
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Patient care advocates and dispensary supervisors at Bloc Dispensary, a subsidiary of Justice Cannabis Company, have voted to join Teamsters Local 618.
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Eighty-one workers at Growpacker have organized with Teamsters Local 1932 in San Bernardino, California.
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In June, drivers at Amuse, a cannabis distribution company in Southern California voted to join Teamsters Local 630.
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In June, Teamsters Local 777 filed additional unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against Green Thumb Industries GTBIF, the parent company of RISE dispensaries. The charges come after the workers embarked on the longest ULP strike against a cannabis retailer in U.S. history.
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