Every day, workers across diverse industries win organizing campaigns to materially improve their lives by joining the Teamsters

[T-Link Reporter]

Every day, workers across diverse industries win organizing campaigns to materially improve their lives by joining the Teamsters.



282 cannabis workers at Ascend in Barry, Ill., have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 916. The newly organized Ascend Teamsters are cultivation, extraction, facilities, inventory, packaging, post-harvest, and quality assurance workers. Local 916 previously organized drivers and manufacturing workers at Ascend who are now bargaining their first Teamsters contract.



The Teamsters have now successfully organized nearly two dozen cannabis shops in Illinois.





More...