Employees of Dragonfly Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary in Salt Lake City, have elected to become the first first cannabis-sector employees in Utah to unionize, according to Phoenix-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99.
The recent unionization vote involved 30 employees, according to records of the National Labor Relations Board.
“Employees included in the newly formed cannabis union include Dragonfly Wellness associates, team leads, drivers, delivery leads, inventory specialists, pharmacists and head trainers,” according to a UFCW news release.
Dragonfly Wellness opened the state’s first licensed MMJ pharmacy — as dispensaries are called in Utah — in March 2020. Utah had 72,370 registered medical marijuana patients as of August, according to the Utah Department of Health & Human Services.