They want health insurance and other benefits, like workers’ compensation.
“In my conversations with them, these dancers reported consistent compensation issues - including significant wage theft - along with health and safety risks and violations. “Strippers are live entertainers, and while some aspects of their job are unique, they have much in common with other Equity members who dance for a living,” said Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle. They were affiliated with the Service Employees International Union until the club closed in 2013. In 1996, strippers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady organized the Exotic Dancers Union in 1996. This is a first for Equity, but it’s not the first time strippers have sought union recognition.
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The bargaining unit would be affiliated with Actors’ Equity, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers employed in live theater. If the dancers win their election and the results are certified by the National Labor Relations Board, the Star Garden workers would become the only strippers in the United States represented by a union. On Thursday, a majority of 30 dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar filed a petition with the NLRB to hold an election to be represented at the bargaining table by Actors’ Equity Association. PREVIOUSLY on August 17: Unionizing campaigns sweeping workplaces across the country now include a strip club in North Hollywood. If a majority of the roughly 30 Star Garden dancers eligible to vote elect Equity as their bargaining representative, the newly unionized strippers would then begin negotiating their first contract with Star Garden’s management. The employer deployed every tactic they could think of to stall or prevent a union election, choosing to allocate resources to a union-busting law firm instead of simply negotiating a fair contract with their workers.” “Every worker who wants a union deserves a union, including the live performers in strip clubs,” said Kate Shindle, president of Equity.
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