Oregon voters will decide on a ballot measure on Tuesday that’s meant to help marijuana industry workers unionize by mandating labor peace agreements in the sector.
Oregon was among the early adopters of cannabis legalization in 2014, and the state has also made history with voters approving psilocybin therapy and broader drug decriminalization at the ballot in 2020.
While the governor signed legislation into law this year overturning the voter-approved drug decriminalization measure, the state will again consider cannabis reform at the ballot to build upon its legal marketplace.
What Measure 119 would accomplish:
Under the proposal, a marijuana businesses that’s unable to provide proof of a labor peace agreement could be subject a denial or revocation of a marijuana business license.
The agreement is defined as a contractually enforceable understanding that the employer must “remain neutral with respect to a bona fide labor organization’s representatives communicating with the employees of the applicant or the licensee about the rights afforded to such employees.”
2024 campaign:
About a month after a regional chapter of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) submitted more than 160,000 signatures to qualify the measure—which aims to block union-busting activities by marijuana
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