After a 15-month battle, the club’s strippers will become the only ones in the U.S. to gain union recognition.
Dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar will become the only strippers in the United States to gain union recognition after the club’s management withdrew challenges to their guild election, the union announced Tuesday.
The recognition came after a sometimes testy 15-month battle between the dancers and the strip club, Star Garden, over becoming a union.
Recognition came during a settlement hearing between union attorneys and attorneys for management at the bar.
Tensions between the dancers and management at Star Garden sometimes escalated during the negotiations over unionization, with dancers signing on a petition to management in March.
Strippers began picketing outside the establishment in 2022, telling patrons not to enter and that the conditions inside were unsafe to dancers.
Eight strippers told The Times in interviews that management told security not to interfere with threatening customers. »
