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Minnesota medical marijuana workers organize
Medical cannabis worker may be a new job in Minnesota, but the industry already has a union.
Minnesota's United Food and Commercial Workers chapter says it has organized workers at one of the state's two medical cannabis production facilities.
It's small at the moment. There are only a handful of employees at Minnesota Medical Solutions, the first facility expected to be up and running, said Bernie Hesse, organizer at the South St. Paul-based UFCW Local 1189.
"The UFCW has been working on this in multiple states," Hesse said. "We see a real potential for development, and I'll be using the word growth a lot, which people giggle about, but a lot of growth in this industry."
Given the experience in other states, the UFCW estimates that eventually there will be about one job for every 10 patients that use medical cannabis. That includes workers in the grow operations, extractions, packaging,...
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