Nation’s First Unionized Pot Farm Goes Bust, Oakland Loses Bid to Be Cannabis Capital

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 09:00 AM  | 

Last year, prior to the defeat of California’s Proposition 19, it appeared as though unions had a budding new industry in which they could grow their memberships. First, the United Food & Commercial Workers jumped onto the cannabis bandwagon. Then, the Teamsters waded into the weed growing business when Jimmy Hoffa’s union unionized 40 pot growers in Oakland, California. Pretty soon, all of the unions (it | Read More »

The Teamsters & the Mob: Just when you thought we were past all that…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 10th at 02:18 AM  | 

Just when the SEIU was starting to dominate the union press these days, the good old Teamsters have to come along and steal the show for a few minutes. Yeah.  They’ve got a history they’d just as soon forget…except when it’s not really history. From a Justice Department press release on Tuesday: Indictment Unsealed Charging Colombo Family Administration Member Theodore Persico and Seven Other Defendants | Read More »