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Teamsters represent Calif. medical pot growers

Employees to get up to $25.75 an hour, pension, health insurance, vacation

By MARCUS WOHLSEN
msnbc.msn.com
updated 9/20/2010 7:04:07 PM ET

OAKLAND, California — As organized labor faces declining membership, one of the United States' most storied unions is looking to a new growth industry: marijuana.

The Teamsters added nearly 40 new members earlier this month by organizing the country's first group of unionized marijuana growers. Such an arrangement is likely only possible in California, which has the loosest U.S. medical marijuana laws.
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