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Colorado agricultural workers can now unionize. So why aren’t they?

Legislature in 2021 passed the Farmworkers Bill of Rights, but only one agricultural union has been formed

Anthony Sykes stands in front of the Green Dragon Cannabis Co. in Denver on Friday, May 10, 2024. Sykes is a harvest technician at Green Dragon and member of his union's bargaining committee. Green Dragon employees formed the first agricultural workers’ union under a 2021 state law designed to improve working conditions on Colorado’s farms. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Anthony Sykes stands in front of the Green Dragon Cannabis Co. in Denver on Friday, May 10, 2024. Sykes is a harvest technician at Green Dragon and member of his union’s bargaining committee. Green Dragon employees formed the first agricultural workers’ union under a 2021 state law designed to improve working conditions on Colorado’s farms. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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The 2021 law, dubbed the Farmworkers Bill of Rights, allowed Colorado ag workers to unionize for the first time. But nearly three years later, the Denver cannabis operation remains the only success story.
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