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Newshawk: Kirk
Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/2U0uXz24
Pubdate: Fri, 18 Jun 2010
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2010 The Modesto Bee
Contact:
Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271
Author: Peter Hechtpheecht
UNIONS SEE OPPORTUNITIES IN MARIJUANA INDUSTRY, BALLOT MEASURE
California's marijuana movement is picking up the union
label.
Last month, the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5, in
Oakland announced that it would represent 100 employees working in
local medical cannabis industries. Now Communications Workers of
America Local 9415, which represents 1,800 members in California,
Nevada and Hawaii, is endorsing the November initiative to legalize
marijuana for recreational use in California and allow local
communities to tax and regulate pot sales.
In an campaign statement for initiative proponents, the union said it
was backing the measure to help save public sector jobs through taxes
on legalized pot.
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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