Kauai medical marijuana dispensary applicant partners with UFCW union
Green Aloha Ltd., one of the consortiums applying for Kauai’s first medical marijuana dispensary license, has struck an agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 480.
Across the U.S., UFCW represents more than 1.3 million members — some of whom are part of its Cannabis Workers Rising program, working in the developing recreational and medical marijuana industries on the Mainland.
“This is a new industry here for Hawaii but its not a brand new industry nationally, and it’s something that the UFCW Cannabis Workers Rising union has been working on since 2008,” said Casey Rothstein, operations manager at Green Aloha. “They had a lot of experience and already established training programs in safety protocol and procedure. We thought through a partnership with the union we’d be able to take advantage of their industry experience and background, and it would allow us to hit the ground running should we be privileged...
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