US labor agency: Ruling says cannabis trimmers, grow-room employees can’t unionize because they qualify as agricultural laborers

MJ Biz reports..

Marijuana cultivators, trimmers, sorters and packagers can’t form unions because they qualify as agricultural laborers, according to a watershed new ruling from U.S. labor regulators.

The decision, 04_CA_260089_10_21_20_.pdf,, was released last week by the National Labor Relations Board and counters previous decisions by the labor board that marijuana growers are employees and not agricultural workers.

The distinction is important because agricultural laborers under federal law do not have the right to organize unions, although “employees” do.

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US labor agency: Marijuana trimmers, grow-room employees can’t unionize

 

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04_CA_260089_10_21_20_.pdf

 

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