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Park Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
An entrance gate at Joshua Tree National Park in California.
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesNational 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.