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Smoke Show: Is a software data tech technically a farmer? Worker protections hinge on the answer

Summary by Kansas City Pitch
Art by Keegan Hudspeth Employees from a local cannabis company could change the shape of national labor law. No one involved saw this coming, but now the stakes have ratcheted up to the highest levels of power—all because of one agricultural conflict.  In September 2023, 17 BeLeaf Medical employees filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to unionize. The employees are members of the post-harvest department at the company’…
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Kansas City Pitch broke the news in on Monday, July 7, 2025.
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