Trend Toward Cannabis Worker Unionization Reaches Connecticut Amid Increase in National Labor Activity

As the cannabis industry grows both locally and nationally, labor organizers have increasingly targeted the field for unionization. While Connecticut is one of the earlier states to legalize cannabis, Connecticut only recently joined the ranks of states with unionized cannabis workers. As a result, Connecticut-based cannabis companies arguably enjoy some benefit from having the opportunity to observe what has come next in states where cannabis workers have joined, or are in the midst of joining, labor unions. Recent activity has shown that unions are taking aggressive action to unionize the cannabis industry and negotiate competitive inaugural collective bargaining agreements for employees. 

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