International Business Times: The liberal website Salon.com has recognized its editorial staffers’ request to form a union, ending a month-long standoff between writers and managers at the 20-year-old publication. With it, Salon employees join the Guardian US and Gawker Media in choosing to join a union to improve working conditions. Salon Media Group management will allow formation of the union with the Writers Guild of America, East by a pro forma card check, where a majority of employees simply sign onto the union. No election will be forced.