After months of labor strife, with workers fired or pressured to quit because they sought union representation, a Santa Barbara, California newsroom now has the go-ahead for union representation. The National labor Relations Board rejected the newspaper management's arguments of unfair labor practices used during an election last September at the Santa Barbara News-Press. During that vote, 33 out of 39 voting employees said they wanted representation by the Graphics Communications Conference, a branch of the Teamsters. With the unanimous decision by the board, the newspaper must now bargain with the union. Labor issues at the paper came to a head in 2006 when a number of editors quit and alleged the paper’s publisher of interfering with news operations. Since then eight other employees have been fired for expressing support of the union. The NLRB is still in the process of weighing whether or not those employees were improperly fired.