Workers at an infamously smelly Trulieve Cannabis Corp. cultivation facility in Phoenix became the first agricultural-sector employees to sign a union contract in Arizona in 25 years on Wednesday.
As the Phoenix New Times reported, the Trulieve employees are also the first marijuana cultivation workers to sign a union contract in the state.
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All other employees in the state that have signed union-negotiated contracts work in retail, at marijuana stores or delivery services.
And the only other example of agricultural workers unionizing in Arizona came in 2000, when employees of a now-closed tomato hothouse voted to organize.
There are 43 employees at Trulieve’s Magnolia production facility in central Phoenix, where workers first voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Local
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