Marijuana businesses in California and on the East Coast are evading worker-friendly licensing requirements by obtaining state business permits after signing deals with “labor organizations” that appear to be illegitimate “company unions,” documents and interviews show.
The growing presence of these fake unions jeopardizes the inroads made by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, critics charge, while offering limited or zero benefits to workers.
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In many states with adult-use legalization, state law requires legal marijuana businesses to sign a labor peace agreement, or LPA, with a “bona fide” labor union before receiving final licensing.
The LPAs are contracts in which an employer agrees to be neutral during a labor-organizing campaign.
In return, the union agrees not to picket, boycott or otherwise interfere with the employer’s business.
States that require would-be cannabis industry operators to secure labor peace agreements under state
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