What it's really like working in the legal cannabis industry
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2023
- Legalizing pot has opened the floodgates to a new multibillion dollar industry in multiple states. But where there are high profits, there's often high exploitation. The experience of unionized cannabis delivery drivers and warehouse workers who belong to Grassdoor Workers provides an instructive example of exploitative practices found across industries, and how workers can organize to fight back. Despite the best efforts of management to keep employees isolated from one another, Grassdoor workers managed to organize in response to company wage theft and successfully joined their Teamsters local. Grassdoor Workers organizer "G" speaks with The Real News.
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What’s it really like? Well you should hope your boss doesn’t take advantage of their employees and follows the state labor laws. Lots of employers don’t think labor laws are applicable to the MJ industry so they will try to turn you into their slave instead of an employee. The pay sucks in most states. You are not taken care of or respected. My employer even told us if we were hurt on the job we would be drug tested and fired! He wanted us to test our own product but used it like blackmail to terminate us if he wanted to for any reason he chose to.
This was a licensed rec? Report them to the state. These people don’t deserve getting rich selling overpriced mids while not taking care of employees.
Why would you need to test your own product. It sounds like he knew he had a bunch of junkies working for him and he knew he could pay you in a couple of puffs instead of a living wage. It's a common unspoken agreement.
@Deno2100 junkies? What the hell man. Marijuana is safer than alcohol.
Blow the whistle, names?
That rude. Turn him in.
I changed the industry at 60 years old at the beginning of the pandemic, I was previously a caregiver and medical transport driver. First company I worked for was fabulous to their employees but they went through a restructure and I lost my job. The second company I'm working for currently is horrible to their employees and I'm looking for a way to get out.
Hey Vince, great topic ❤
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I am curious to know what the starting pay is for a cannabis driver, also, how much does the company pay per mile driven, and lastly, do they get benefits like vacation time accrued and healthcare, for full-time employees. Are they all full-time employees?
Just Wow
Me and my cousin and his wife are going to san Diego CALIFORNIA in October 19-23 for five days we are flying there
I don't care about the industry, but I do care about the taxes they get off of it. This is much like the taxes on cigarettes, tax it extremely high and any time you need you need some extra cash, raise the tax. If you smoke Marijuana for relaxation, I urge you to grow your own or buy from a grower you know. Don't give in to the ridiculous extortion of excessive taxation.
Grow your own. ✊✌️
Trying to Amazon the WEED industry is utterly ridiculous. Why is delivery so important? Has anyone ever heard of LIQUOR stores struggling for sales and profits? If a company has no money to actually HAVE A PROPER STORE then how does anyone expect commensurate pay?
That's your takeaway from this? Stop delivery?
@@moriyokiri3229 Simply has no merit for unionization. Get real about the labor intensive jobs and people will listen. Creating delivery services for vice industries is NOT a topic to take to a union board.
@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921it's considered medical...
This is what one has to expect under capital. It can't and won't change under capital, ever. Capital ruins all it touches.
And communism is a better alternative? Grow up. Atleast with capital you, yourself have the opportunity to make a prosperous business and be the owner. Stop complaining and do something.
Iam 60 yes old my birthday is March 23 1963
Plenty of issues for sure but it still beats getting "searched" aka oftentimes that meanins being extrajudicially executed by some cop who claimed he "smelled weed", which the Supreme Court of Wisconsin just ruled was legal. RIP Philando Castille
Wild. I thought "smelling" constituted an unlawful search without probable cause, and doesn't meet the standard of probable cause for a search. I'll have to look that up.
My hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb and I have 5 shortwave receivers and iam thinking about getting my ham license
I live in Franklin Wisconsin it wood be nice whe marijuan is legal in Wisconsin then i can buy marijuan
11am est: I never heard you mention once the facts that the drug mafia that left farmers with their heads cut off etc when they wanted to stop the south or Central American drug mafia from taking over their family farm productions for food? The HISTORY of this drug scene. Maybe you should do some research on that and get program on what preceded your efforts to just unionize delivery drivers, which in itself is commendable.
The issue of how much blood is on the hands of your favorite drug has always been relevant.
I'm confused
USA Drug Mafia is different than others. They are low quantity dealers each one, but they are millions.
I smoke marijuan
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It's a joke
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I don't like these types of podcast presentations. Do it in video format and I'll be interested, but otherwise use radio. I figure.
This has less to do with the cannabis industry as much as being a pro union podcast in summary.