Workers in 24 US National Park Service Units Seek to Unionize (1)

National Park Service employees in 24 parks and administrative offices are petitioning to unionize, the latest action in a fast-growing movement among employees at the service.

On Monday workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations in the Intermountain Region of the NPS filed a petition with the Federal Labor Relations Authority to hold a union election, weeks after a parallel filing by a group of 12 park units in the agency’s Pacific West Region, including Crater Lake, Joshua Tree and Olympic.

If organizers prevail, the efforts would unionize more than 1,300 employees. That’s about 10% of the agency’s roughly 13,000 union-eligible employees, about 5,700 of whom ...