Employees of cannabis multistate operator Green Thumb Industries want to vote on whether they can remove United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 360 as their union representative.
Michael Potter, a lead warehouse technician for Chicago-based Green Thumb, filed a petition asking for the vote on behalf of about 275 of his co-workers at five New Jersey locations, according to a news release from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRWLDF).
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Attorneys from the NRWLDF, the federal agency that enforces labor law, are providing free legal aid to Potter.
New Jersey doesn’t have a right-to-work law, which means union officials can demand that workers pay union dues or fees to stay employed.
Union officials also have monopoly bargaining power, which
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