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Employees at California marijuana distributor ratify Teamsters contract
Workers at Oakland, California-based marijuana distributor Nabis ratified their first union contract, the Teamsters Local 630 announced.
The ratification comes after the employees voted in December to join the union.
The contract includes:
- Guaranteed 28% wage increases for the three-year agreement.
- Four weeks of paid vacation a year.
- Paid sick days and holidays.
- A guaranteed work week of at least 40 hours.
- A Teamsters pension.
“What they have done at this company can serve as a model for successful organizing and bargaining throughout the California cannabis industry moving forward,” Lou Villalvazo, the Teamsters Local 630 secretary-treasurer, said in a news release.
The move is the latest organized labor victory in the legal marijuana industry, which has been a focus of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as well as the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/employees-at-california-cannabis-distributor-nabis-ratify-teamsters-contract/