OPB Says .. Oregon Measure 119 “appears” to pass. It will give cannabis workers an easier route to unionize

It’s not final yet but this is what OPB says

Ballot Measure 119, the United for Cannabis Workers Act, appears to have passed, based on vote tallies as of Wednesday morning.

The measure will require employers at cannabis retail and processing businesses to sign a “labor peace agreement” with a labor union to receive a license from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.

In that agreement, employers must agree they will remain neutral if their employees choose to unionize.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 — Oregon’s largest private sector labor union — led the effort to put the measure on the ballot. Several other groups supported it, including Oregon Center for Public Policy, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) — Oregon’s largest farmworker union — and several other statewide and local elected officials.

At least one statewide group publicly opposed the measure, the Taxpayers Association of Oregon.

“Oregon’s legal shops pay high taxes, have extreme red tape, and cannot compete against untaxed and unregulated illegal pot farms that uses human-trafficked, slave-like labor,” the association wrote in an opposing argument in the 2024 Oregon voters pamphlet. “If passed, Measure 119 would likely cause labor costs to spike and hurt a fragile industry already in decline, giving more power to illegal street drug dealers.”

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/05/oregon-measure-119-cannabis-workers-easier-to-unionize/

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