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YOSEMITE (KSEE/KGPE) - Over 97% of parkland rangers, educators, researchers, interest collectors, archetypal responders, firefighters and different unit astatine Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks voted successful favour of unionizing, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) announced.
On Aug. 28, the NFFE announced that its tract unit led a "successful" campaign, moving alongside the interior organizing committee to guarantee unionizing.
An predetermination was held during the highest of summer, from July 22 to Aug. 19. Officials accidental that clip play allowed some parks to person their highest unit levels and ensured some imperishable and seasonal employees had the accidental to vote.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority certified the results of the election, adding astir 600 workers to the union.
According to NFFE National President Randy Erwin, by unionizing, hundreds of antecedently unrepresented employees person gained "a captious dependable successful their workplace."
“I americium honored to invited the Interpretive Park Rangers, scientists, biologists, photographers, geographers, and truthful galore different national employees..." Erwin said. "[Employees] present person the powerfulness to marque important changes to payment themselves and their colleagues.”
According to Erwin, the determination to unionize was influenced successful portion by the existent administration.
"Federal employees crossed the state person been faced with reductions successful force, threats to workplace protections, and slashed bureau budgets nether this administration," Erwin said. "NFFE volition beryllium taking each measurement imaginable to summation some staffing and resources, and to support employees from actions that endanger their rights and the unthinkable enactment they bash stewarding our nationalist lands."
