After months of organizing efforts, California Academy of Sciences museum employees have voted to form a union. Cal Academy Workers United, the union, announced the results Monday.

Union organizers said 77 percent of roughly 350 eligible workers voted, and of those, 77 percent voted yes to form a union.

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Charles is a Knight Foundation intern at Bay City News and a Master of Journalist candidate at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He freelanced for Oakland Side and Oakland North on race, equity, and health outcomes in the Bay Area. Before his graduate studies, Charles worked as a Business reporter in Ghana, West Africa, covering financial markets and rising startups. At Bay City News, he is interested in reporting on public health and the intersections of race and equity in the Bay Area.