It never a good sign when employees feel the need to form a union, but that is exactly what is happening at NBC’s cable news channel MSNBC.

According to the NY Times, MSNBC employees are planning to form a union representing about 315 workers including producers, bookers, writers and fact checkers.

The Times writes that the MSNBC bargaining unit would be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, which said a clear majority of the network’s employees had signed a letter seeking voluntary recognition of a union. The Writers Guild represents many news and entertainment outlets, including ABC News and CBS News, whose involvement dates to the guild’s beginnings in 1954.

The announcement is the latest example of a workers’ rights movement that has swept major media organizations, as print, digital and broadcast journalists seek to unionize amid a precarious outlook for their industry.

Maybe if media organizations would pay their people better and treat them better, employees would not feel the need to join a union.

Just saying….