n January, a group of employees at set out to form a labor union, joining a growing trend at news organizations and nonprofits nationwide. Members of our staff had been collecting signatures on union cards, and on Tuesday, Jan. 9, representatives of the Denver Newspaper Guild, a branch of the Communications Workers of America, filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board. The employees in a proposed bargaining unit can vote on whether they want to be represented by the union.
