Illinois Cannabis Unions
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Workers at the Cresco Labs marijuana grow facility in Joliet voted Tuesday to unionize, two weeks after recreational weed sales started in Illinois.
Workers at the facility voted 58 to 32 to be represented by the United Food & Commercial Workers union, said Zach Koutsky, legislative and political director for Local 881 UFCW.
The workers want higher wages, lower health care costs, more respect on the job and other requests, Koutsky said.