With CBD legal for purchase nationwide and cannabis becoming legal in more and more states, these industries are becoming a new industry to organize. This organizing is being led by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), their sister union the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), and the Teamsters. The UFCW, which is […]
Read More →UFCW Inks National Cannabis Deal(s)
on June 7, 2021in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: afl-cio, Brian Young, Cannabis, CBD, hemp, Nature’s Root Labs, pro-union, Retail Wholesale & Department Store Union, rwdsu, Teamsters, ucommblog, UFCW, UFCW Local 1625, UFCW Local 7, Union Harvest, union-packed, union-sold products, unionize, United Food and Commercial Workers, USA union-made, wwaflcio
Unions Back Effort To Block Deportations; Create Pathways To Citizenship
on March 20, 2019in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Deportations, Dream and Promise Act, H.R. 6, Haitians, Hondurans, immigration, Liberians, LIUNA, Salvadorans, SEIU, Teamsters, Temporary Protected Status, TPS, UFCW
Several major American unions have endorsed a bill introduced in the House March 12, that could protect more than 2 million people from deportation. The Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6), sponsored by Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), and Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), would enable two sketchily protected groups of immigrants to apply for […]
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