Sean Hocking
As firm broadcasts thrilling plans to increase medical marijuana enterprise and enter grownup use market, staff will get pleasure from essential union protections, trainings and advantages.
WEST BERLIN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–United Meals and Industrial Employees (UFCW) Native 360 is happy to announce the choice by staff at Concord Basis, and its Concord Dispensary in Secaucus, NJ., to unionize as members of UFCW. Concord workers can now add their names to the rapidly rising ranks of UFCW Native 360 from throughout New Jersey’s younger marijuana financial system. Just lately, Concord introduced its intention to increase into the grownup use marijuana market, and to open areas in Hoboken, Jersey Metropolis – in addition to a brand new cultivation website in Lafayette.
“It’s nice information for these staff, and their households. They rigorously thought-about, after which chosen, the career-supporting advantages that include becoming a member of Native 360,” stated Hugh Giordano, UFCW Native 360’s director of organizing. “From ensuring that sick and struggling sufferers get the assistance they want, to educating them on the way to correctly expertise the advantages of medical marijuana and supporting the enlargement of this trade, they’ve proven their dedication to the promise of the hashish financial system.”
“Throughout the hashish trade, a brand new technology of staff is discovering that bona fide labor unions play a important position in correctly balancing the wants of workers, communities and employers,” stated Sam Ferraino, Jr., UFCW Native 360 president. “This vote is not only a present of assist within the promise of unions to positively impression companies, households and communities, it’s additionally a declaration in assist of excessive working requirements and a various and expert workforce with good working situations.”
“We’ve all the time stated that UFCW helps hashish trade staff from seed to sale,” added Giordano. “And with an organization like Concord, that’s clearly the case. They’re already a reputation in medical marijuana, with their very own cultivation and dispensary operations, they usually’re actively seeking to increase, each geographically via new shops and by coming into the grownup use market. It’s the suitable time to hitch with Native 360, and we’re proud that these staff got here to the identical conclusion.”
From seed to sale, UFCW is a acknowledged chief in organizing hashish trade workers and is the official AFL-CIO designated hashish labor union. Representing tens of 1000’s of hashish staff in dispensaries, labs, supply, manufacturing, processing, develop services and extra, UFCW works with workers and enterprise homeowners to realize the shared objective of a regulated hashish trade that delivers family-sustaining jobs and is concentrated on social fairness.
About United Meals and Industrial Employees: The UFCW Worldwide Union represents over 1.3 million hardworking households throughout the U.S. and Canada. These members work in important industries reminiscent of Retail, Warehousing, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Transportation, the Public Sector and Hashish.
Contacts
Hugh Giordano,
UFCW 360 Director of Organizing,
609-367-5594
