{"id":62674,"date":"2025-08-21T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?post_type=victories&#038;p=62674"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:14:53","slug":"cannabis-workers-in-canada-join-local-175","status":"publish","type":"victories","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/actions\/victories\/cannabis-workers-in-canada-join-local-175\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Workers in Canada Join Local 175"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cannabis workers at Canna Cabana at the Rideau Street location in Ottawa, Canada, recently joined UFCW Local 175.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UFCW Local 175 also represents Canna Cabana workers on Clarence Street in Ottawa. Much like their colleagues at other retail cannabis locations, the employees at Canna Cabana Rideau Street wanted to secure the right to bargain together and benefit from the protections of a union contract. From wage improvements to consistent hours, better job security, fair treatment and more, with the UFCW representing them, these workers will now move forward as a unified group to build a better work life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUFCW Local 175 was the first union to certify retail cannabis workers in Ontario back in 2020,\u201d said <strong>UFCW Local 175 President Kelly Tosato<\/strong>. \u201cWith a lot of growth and shifts in this industry, employees in many retail locations have found that being a part of Local 175 goes a long way to ensuring their voices are heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis workers at Canna Cabana at the Rideau Street location in Ottawa, Canada, recently joined UFCW Local 175. UFCW Local 175 also represents Canna Cabana workers on Clarence Street in Ottawa. Much like their colleagues at other retail cannabis locations, the employees at Canna Cabana Rideau Street wanted to secure the right to bargain together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-62674","victories","type-victories","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis","tag-ufcw-local-175"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cannabis Workers in Canada Join Local 175 - The United Food &amp; Commercial Workers International Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cannabis workers at Canna Cabana at the Rideau Street location in Ottawa, Canada, recently joined UFCW Local 175.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/actions\/victories\/cannabis-workers-in-canada-join-local-175\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cannabis Workers in Canada Join Local 175 - The United Food &amp; 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