Labor Tensions Escalate in Massachusetts Cannabis Industry
Late last year, the United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1445 successfully organized workers at a Massachusetts cannabis business.
When Sira Naturals found out its workers wanted to unionize, management didn’t fight it, Local 1445 Secretary Treasurer Fabricio DaSilva said. The national UFCW started putting resources toward organizing workers in Massachusetts, seeing it as a destination for big cannabis companies. DaSilva thought Sira Naturals would set the tone for the state.
“That was not the case,” he said . . .
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