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Newsroom employees at the Los Angeles Times on Monday requested that the NLRB hold an election to determine if the workers wish to be represented by the News Guild-Communications Workers of America. The unionization drive came after years of significant declines in print advertising, layoffs, and management turnover. The LA Times is currently one of the only major US newspapers whose writers are not represented by a union. Just last week, press operators at the LA Times held an election to decide whether or not to decertify their union. This was in line with recent Trump-era legislation mandating that re-certification elections be held once a majority of employees who initially voted in favor of a union have left the bargaining unit. Preliminary results show that 85 of the 90 newspaper’s press operators voted to maintain union representation. The NLRB is expected to hold an election for the Times’ newsroom employees sometime next month.