SANTA ANA – Orange County’s first licensed medical marijuana dispensary also has become the first in the county to unionize, offering benefits to workers plus a boost to the shrinking organized labor movement.
South Coast Safe Access, which... employs up to 22 people at its Warner Avenue shop, signed a labor agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 324.
“This is a game changer,” said Derek Worden, president of South Coast Safe Access. “We’re bringing something to the industry that really doesn’t exist” in the county.
The contract provides employees minimum starting pay of $13.50 an hour, health benefits, vacation and paid pension contributions.
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