On this episode of The Left Of Boom Show, we invited some in-house guests – LRI chief-of-staff Danine Clay and labor consultant Amber Glesener – to candidly discuss their experiences with workers in the cannabis industry.

They will address labor-specific wrinkles within an industry that faces many challenging issues:

Federally, this industry is not legal but must follow federal labor law.

Rapidly changing laws across state lines adds further complications. This includes states that require or encourage companies to adopt a neutral stance through so-called Labor Peace Agreements during organizing campaigns:

• Cannabis workers fall into both the retail and agricultural sectors, which present different potential workplace concerns.
• Taxation in this industry has reached a nearly prohibitive level, leaving little financial wiggle room. Therefore, losing a union election could tip the balance from profitable to unsustainable.
• Cannabis is not only an attractive union target but a testing ground for the - Cemex framework that makes it easier for workers to unionize.