Dancers at a Los Angeles strip club have successfully gained union recognition after more than a year of tense negotiations with management, making them the country’s only strippers in an official bargaining collective. AdvertisementThe strippers are now part of Actors’ Equity Association, which comprises over 51,000 actors and stage managers. Reagan, a dancer, protests outside Star Garden Topless Dive Bar on March 26, 2022, in North Hollywood, California. Francine Orr via Getty ImagesAdvertisementActors’ Equity Association defended the dancers’ right to be recognized as union performers. In 1996, strippers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady formed the Exotic Dancers Union under the Service Employees International Union.

Source: Huffington Post May 17, 2023 03:16 UTC