An attempt to unionize workers at a medical cannabis facility near Philadelphia was dismissed after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the employees who were trying to organize there were agricultural workers.
AgriKind owns a cannabis growing operation in Chester. It’s parent company has an interest in one of the Pennsylvania Clinical Registrant growers, which works with Drexel University to develop medical cannabis studies. It also plans to open a dispensary in Chester in March.
Two AgriKind employees, a trimmer and a cultivation associate, attempted to establish a union shop there under the auspices of the United Food and Commercial Workers 1776.
Agricultural and farm workers are usually considered to be federally exempt from federal labor law.
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