‘We do want certain rights. We want certain wages’.
As the cannabis industry continues to grow in New Jersey, more of its workers are unionizing, and labor organizers hope to continue this trend. “We do want certain rights,” said Antonio Melendez-Mott, an employee at The Botanist dispensary. “We want certain wages, and we want to be able to build on that so that in 10 years people are looking back and they are saying, ‘We have a career out of this.’”
In June, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Union 152 negotiated a three-year agreement for increased pay and better health benefits for employees at The Botanist locations in Egg Harbor and Atlantic City.
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