An Open Letter to the Board of Glass House Brands

Members of the board —

My name is Abraham Rosenwald. My family holds a significant position in Glass House — roughly 23.4% of voting power across two disclosed positions. This message comes from me alone — not from my family, not from any fund, and not on behalf of any union or any campaign. I am going to tell you why I support what is coming. Then I am going to tell you exactly what it is — the whole plan — because none of it depends on surprise, and because I would rather you hear it from me, plainly, while this can still be a conversation.

First, why.

Last July, federal agents came to Camarillo. Three hundred sixty-one people who work under our roof were taken into custody. Fourteen were minors. And a man — a worker, fifty-seven years old — fell during that operation and died two days later. I am not here to assign fault for any of that, and I am not asking you to concede any.

I am here because of what that day exposed. Roughly four hundred people do the work this company's value is built on — and about nine of them are our employees. The rest reach us through a labor contractor. When something goes wrong, almost no one in our greenhouses has anyone at this company who is answerable for them. That is a design choice. We made it. And we hold a labor peace agreement because licensing requires one — I want to be precise about what that is.

It satisfies a statute. It is not a voice our workers chose.

Now the plan. All of it.

It begins with safety, not persuasion. Before a single flyer reaches a worker: a staffed hotline in Spanish with Indigenous-language routing, retained labor counsel, and hard rules — no one asks immigration status, no one keeps lists of workers, and no one uses a man's death as a talking point.

Then rights education. Wallet cards, community radio, print — in Spanish, and through human translators the community trusts, in Mixteco and other Indigenous languages. What California law already says about pay, heat, water, rest, and retaliation. No asks. No signatures. Information.

Then the issues themselves. Hours worked and hours paid. What a quota is supposed to be. How a short check gets fixed. What respect looks like when it is written down — and the difference between a paper agreement and a contract workers choose.

Then, only if workers want them, private conversations — off site, no recordings, no lists — where workers decide what matters most and who they trust to speak. Leaders will not be assigned. They will emerge, or they will not.

And at the end of it, a decision that belongs to the workers alone. If a majority choose representation through the process California law provides, there is a lawful path to certification — run by a bona fide union and its counsel, not by me, and not by any outreach campaign. If workers choose otherwise, that is the end of it — and nothing will have been wasted, because they will know their rights.

What I will not give you: the names of the community organizations before they choose to be named, the budget, or the calendar. Not because they are secrets — because they are not mine to hand over, and because you do not need them to do the right thing.

Which brings me to what I am asking. Three things.

• One: neutrality. If workers organize, no avoidance consultants, no captive-audience meetings, no counter-campaign. California law already restricts some of this. I am asking us to be better than the minimum.
• Two: a written commitment — from us, and required of our contractor — that no worker faces retaliation for asking questions or organizing.
• Three: if a majority of workers choose representation through the process the law provides, honor it without delay.

Workers choose. Our job is to not stand in the way.

Judge the plan by its rules. It makes no promise it cannot keep — including the one promise these workers most want to hear. No one can promise to stop immigration enforcement. This plan says that out loud.

Our family's name is not on the buildings. But it is in this company's story either way. I would like it to be in the chapter where Glass House became the cannabis company that let its workers answer for themselves.

Thank you.