In a nearly unanimous vote, employees at the Curaleaf dispensary on Camelback Road voted to decertify their union just days after a four-year contract negotiation resulted in guaranteed wage increases.
The move comes as a surprise, given how hard Curaleaf employees fought to form a union and win a contract.
In July 2022, employees voted to unionize at the Curaleaf location. The company challenged that move in court. A National Labor Relations Board judge upheld the vote, and a federal court affirmed that decision in September 2024 after Curaleaf appealed. Throughout that time, employees’ efforts to negotiate with the union were unsuccessful. In February 2024, the NLRB found that Curaleaf had unlawfully refused to bargain with the union and ordered it to participate in contract talks…