Union gets toehold in R.I.’s marijuana industry

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TED GRILLO, left, and Matthew Baryshyan are two cultivation workers at the Ocean State Cultivation Center in Warwick./COURTESY OCEAN STATE CULTIVATION CENTER
THE NASCENT CANNABIS INDUSTRY in Rhode Island is expanding quickly and attracting the attention of a national union best known for organizing supermarket workers. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has signed a labor peace agreement with the owner of Ocean State Cultivation Center in Warwick. The agreement is seen as opening a…

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