Employees at the Sundance Institute have filed notice that they are forming a union — and using the words of the institute’s late founder, actor-director-activist Robert Redford, to make their case.

The Sundance Institute Workers Union, represented by the Communication Workers of America Local 9003, delivered a petition Monday to the institute’s leadership, the CWA announced in a news release. The employees have asked Sundance to recognize the union voluntarily by Friday.

“We have decided that if we’re going to preserve the legacy that Sundance has built, we need to have a say in what happens moving forward, as the people who it affects the most,” Sara Kenrick, a coordinator for event operations at Sundance and one of the organizers of the unionization effort, told The Salt Lake Tribune

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