Labor unions organizing marijuana workers notched recent victories in three states, including with cultivators who don’t enjoy the same federal protections extended to cannabis retail workers.
In Northern California, cultivation and post-harvest workers at Santa Rosa-based Flora Terra voted to join Teamsters Local 665, according to a news release.
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Exact figures are unclear, but as a labor-intensive agricultural product, cannabis relies on employees who are classified as agricultural workers.
That means they are not covered under the National Labor Relations Act.
In California, such workers are organized under a state law – pushed by late labor organizer Cesar Chavez – called the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Negotiations with Flora Terra, which deals in clones and genetics as well as a retail dispensary, on a union contract will follow, the Local 665 said in a statement.
The Teamsters also signed up retail workers at Cresco Labs’ Sunnyside affiliate
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