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041823-R-30 handout.pdf

Long Beach City Council
April 18, 2023

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041823-R-30 handout.pdf
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April 18, 2023
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Them 30
LB Tax Rigorm
• Petition Results
UFCW has been petitioning in Long Beach's cannabis shops to tie a tax In our outreach to our break that will incentivize cannabis employers to offer better worker unionized cannabis benefits such as wages that are at least 115% of minimum wage, better job shops, we were able to
training, more paths for career advancement, cannabis delivery driver reimbursement at the IRS rate and more. We want good cannabis gather signatures from employers to be rewarded for treating their workers right. 83.9% of our cannabis workers!
From our cannabis worker-led outreach, we've gotten 203 signatures out of our 242 unionized cannabis workers in support of this tax reform. We talked to workers from Catalyst, Chronic Long Beach, LB Green Room, Petition Signer Demographics Long Beach Wellness Center, The Lift, The Station, The Corner, The Circle, Medmen Broadway, and Show Grow.

We were able to collect an additional 29 signatures from non unionized Long Beach Cannabis shops in spite of the challenges in worker outreach to those shops.

Community Union Cannabis
With a huge thank you to our Chronic Long Beach stewards, we were able Members Workers to collect a whopping 221 signatures from community members, showing 48.8% 4450% solidarity in cannabis workers and consumers supporting reform for the industry. Let's make the Long Beach cannabis industry a better place for our workers to thrive!
Non-Union Cannabis Workers 6.4%

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