Employees at the headquarters of the federal government’s main land-management agency are trying to unionize in response to a controversial reorganization plan to relocate hundreds of staffers thousands of miles away from Washington. The fledgling labor organizing effort comes amid a Trump administration plan to move more than 200 positions from the Bureau of Land Management based in Washington to offices out West, including to a recently opened headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. “By organizing, BLM employees could have a voice in the workplace and a seat at the table when changes — like massive office relocations — are proposed,” said Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which is seeking to represent the BLM staffers. The BLM says the idea behind the move is to save money and get land managers closer to the more than 240 million acres of Western prairies and […]