The initiative comes after months of staging protests outside the venue raising concerns about workplace safety and labor rights. With a union, together, we can make needed improvements to our workplace. In a petition to management that month, 15 out of 23 dancers called for workplace safety improvements, including enforcing policies barring customers from filming them and lingering after the club closes for the night, and urging the bar to stop serving customers who become belligerent, the LA Times reported.
After the dancers submitted that petition, most were barred from returning to work the next day, according to the paper, which interviewed eight dancers who said they were wrongfully terminated and reviewed signed affidavits submitted to the NLRB alleging that managers failed to protect them from unwanted touching. The workers have regularly picketed outside the establishment, telling arriving customers about their struggle for better working conditions and discouraging them from patronizing the establishment.
An attorney for the club did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday and club management could not immediately be reached. They need protection from sexual harassment, discrimination and unjust terminations.
When they approached us for support, we did what unions should do: we said yes. The move comes amid a wave of labor organizing and unionization efforts across the US, including by fast-food workers , Starbucks employees, flight attendants and Amazon workers.
That establishment closed in After the filing this week, which the union said was backed by a majority of Star Garden dancers, the NLRB will schedule an election for roughly 30 performers eligible to vote. The effort could be complicated by the fact that some of the strippers have not worked at the venue since March, which means the NLRB may have to determine they were wrongfully terminated before they can vote, the LA Times reported.
