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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Zachary Nauth | WBEZ

Illinois’ weed workers pushing to unionize, seeking higher pay, better safety

Cannabis worker Arianna Olson started as a budtender and was promoted to an agent-in-charge at Zen Leaf in Pilsen. She said previously was in dead-end retail jobs and hopes that, with unionization, she would fare better in the cannabis industry. (Manuel Martinez / WBEZ)

The smash-and-grab attempt came as little surprise to employees of Windy City Cannabis in Posen. They had been worrying about safety for months.

When a masked driver backed a sedan with stolen plates through the garage delivery door, forcing the store to close for several days for repairs, employees said they thought, “Of course.” They’d already formed a union to help fight for safety protections.

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