In June, employees at Curaleaf's dispensary on Central Avenue in midtown became the first dispensary workers in Arizona to vote to unionize. through its Cannabis Workers Rising project.
UFCW has focused lately on organizing budtenders in Arizona and across the U.S. “We are grateful for our Zen Leaf team members, patients, and adult use customers, and look forward to continue serving our wide variety of quality cannabis products across our six Phoenix area Zen Leaf locations," Mazeika said. He did not directly address the union vote. Steve Mazeika, director of communications for Zen Leaf's parent company, Chicago-based Verano Holdings, said in a statement to Phoenix New Times that the company looks forward to continuing to serve its customers. The dispensary becomes the fourth in Arizona to vote to unionize. The union celebrated the win, writing on social media that Local Joint employees "will begin to bargain a contract to improve working conditions, raise wages, and secure their futures in the industry." They voted 9-1 to form a union.īudtenders and other workers at Local Joint will be represented by United Food and Commercial Workers, a labor union with more than a million members across cannabis retailers, grocery stores, offices, and airports. Ten of the 17 eligible workers participated in the election. Employees at the location - Zen Leaf Local Joint on East University Drive - filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board on July 14, and ballots were tallied last week. On September 13, budtenders at a Zen Leaf dispensary in Phoenix became the latest workers to join a union, voting overwhelmingly in favor of organizing. The wave of labor organizing that recently has swept through Arizona's cannabis industry is not yet slowing.
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