It's been more than seven months since employees of St. Louis-based Beleaf Medical cannabis company held an election to unionize.
The majority of the ballots—11 of the 16—have remained closed.
"It's been quite a while," said Will Braddum, a post-harvest technician at the company's Sinse facility in St. Louis. "We're just like, what is happening? Why is this happening? We're just kind of in the dark waiting."
The reason behind the delay is likely that Braddum and his fellow "post-harvest" team members exist in a gray area in national labor law—which could change if their union drive is successful.
Read more at Marijuana Moment.