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Broadway strike looms despite actors reaching tentative deal

A strike could cripple Broadway just as it seems to have recovered from the pandemic shutdown

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025

Chippendales dancers launch unionization effort

Group is working with Actors Equity.

Fortune · Oct 9, 2024

Second City teachers set deadline for strike that could halt shows there

If picketing begins Tuesday, ‘it’s extremely possible’ that actors and stage managers could refuse to cross the line, says a spokesman for their union.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 10, 2024

Chicago theaters embrace intimacy choreographers, another City Council race decided and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 13, 2023

Actors’ Equity reaches labor agreement on touring Broadway shows

A joint statement from the union and the trade association Broadway League did not reveal terms of the three-year contract.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 13, 2023

Actors’ Equity signals possible strike with ‘Jagged Little Pill’ leafleting

The union representing professional actors and stage managers across the country are calling attention to a possible strike that would affect all Equity Broadway touring productions currently on the road.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 13, 2023

Union effort by strippers at a Southern California club stalls with challenged ballots

LOS ANGELES — Dancers at a topless dive bar in North Hollywood holding a historic union election expected results Monday. They will need to wait a while longer.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 8, 2022

Meet the strippers working to unionize a Los Angeles dive bar

For the past six months, former Star Garden dancers have been taking their talents to a show-stopping picket line. If successful, they'll be the only strippers with union representation in the U.S.

WEKU · Sep 12, 2022

First Thing: judge orders DoJ to prepare redacted Trump search affidavit

Justice department opposed release of document but Florida federal judge says portions of it ‘could be presumptively unsealed’. Plus, meet the strippers who have filed to unionize

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2022

Strippers have a new tactic in a North Hollywood labor fight. Organizing with an actors union

On Saturday nights, the strip clubs fill up. But at Star Garden, a dingy dive bar in North Hollywood advertising topless girls, the real action is outside.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 18, 2022