When Devon Gamboe heard that some employees of Green Thumb Industries stormed a recent Rock Island City Council meeting to drum up support for their unionization effort, he was upset.
Gamboe works in the grow department at GTI, the marijuana cultivator in Rock Island. His colleagues are trying to unionize, citing workplace intimidation, retaliation and harassment.
But Gamboe said those things aren’t happening at GTI. Now he and a colleague are pushing back against what they claim are false allegations from a minority of GTI employees.
“What they went to City Hall and said is not what a majority of employees feel,” Gamboe said. “GTI’s been fantastic,” said Gamboe, a cancer survivor who previously worked at Nature’s Treatment of Illinois, the dispensary in Milan. “This is a small group of disgruntled people who want to disrupt management.”
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