“People in this field definitely need somebody to stick up for them, because it’s a little easy to get steamrolled.”
By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent
It’s been about two years since Will Braddum was fired from his position at Sinse marijuana cultivation and manufacturing facility in south St. Louis, Missouri, along with more than a dozen others.
For him, the marijuana industry had been a career, but he’d seen how “cutthroat” the corporate side can be, he said, and how vulnerable he and other employees were without representation.
“The only way to pad myself from human resources is to cultivate a union movement and talk to my co-workers about job security,” Braddum said in an interview with The Independent in 2023.
It’s been more than two years since Braddum and other Sinse employees voted in an election to unionize. The majority of the ballots had remained sealed because BeLeaf Medical, the facility’s parent company, challenged them—a challenge the company recently lost.
On Friday, the ballots were finally opened, revealing a long-awaited 11-3 vote in favor of unionization.
“It’s kind of like bittersweet,” Braddum said soon after the ballots were revealed Friday. “It’s really nice to have changed the industry for
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