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Executive Director Mary McColl addresses the crowd at 2017's Rally to Save the Arts at NY City Hall

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  • Deadline: Actors’ Equity Endorses Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s Re-Election Bid

    Deadline: Actors’ Equity Endorses Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s Re-Election Bid

    Actors’ Equity has endorsed Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s re-election bid, marking the first time the union’s National Council has voted to endorse a political candidate in the state. Warnock, a Democrat, is facing Republican challenger Herschel Walker in the November 8 midterm election.

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  • LA Times: Griffith Observatory’s Planetarium Storytellers Petition to Unionize with Actors’ Equity

    LA Times: Griffith Observatory’s Planetarium Storytellers Petition to Unionize with Actors’ Equity

    The dozen observatory lecturers at the Los Angeles institution have unanimously signed union authorization cards with the Actors’ Equity Assn. A petition was presented to the city’s Employee Relations Board during a meeting Monday morning, kicking off a formal feedback period before the board makes a decision in a few months.

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  • Los Angeles Daily News: Small theaters, lawmakers, call on Newsom to sign bill to help them ‘thrive’

    Los Angeles Daily News: Small theaters, lawmakers, call on Newsom to sign bill to help them ‘thrive’

    Two senators, one assemblymember, artist labor leaders, several social justice advocates, and activists as well as actors of every stripe gathered at Boston Court Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 8. But when the curtain rose on a rally exhorting Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign SB 1116 into law, all of them were simply theater kids.

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  • LAW 360: Calif. Dancers Moving To Form Nation's Only Strip Club Union

    LAW 360: Calif. Dancers Moving To Form Nation's Only Strip Club Union

    Performing artists union Actors' Equity Association petitioned Aug. 18 for an election to represent dancers at the Star Garden following months of protests over safety conditions and other concerns. Should the dancers secure an election and vote in favor of the union, they will form the only bargaining unit of strippers in the country and just the third ever.

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  • CNN: STRIPPERS AT LA STRIP CLUB WANT TO JOIN ACTORS' UNION

    CNN: STRIPPERS AT LA STRIP CLUB WANT TO JOIN ACTORS' UNION

    Strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, have filed with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to join the Actors Equity Association, a union of performers and other show business professionals.

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  • FOX 11: NORTH HOLLYWOOD STRIPPERS LOOKING TO UNIONIZE FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS

    FOX 11: NORTH HOLLYWOOD STRIPPERS LOOKING TO UNIONIZE FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS

    Stefanie Frey is with Actors Equity, the union that represents 51,000 theater stage workers and stage managers. To Frey, strippers are no different adding, "It's not just Star Gardens. This is really an industry-wide problem with some of these issues."

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  • KTLA: NORTH HOLLYWOOD STRIPPERS COULD BECOME FIRST UNIONIZED DANCERS IN NATION

    KTLA: NORTH HOLLYWOOD STRIPPERS COULD BECOME FIRST UNIONIZED DANCERS IN NATION

    Strippers who would normally be inside the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar entertaining patrons were instead outside on the sidewalk picketing Friday.

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  • The Hollywood Reporter: Inside Actors’ Equity’s Stripper Union Organizing Effort: “They Are Our Siblings in the Labor Movement”

    The Hollywood Reporter: Inside Actors’ Equity’s Stripper Union Organizing Effort: “They Are Our Siblings in the Labor Movement”

    The theatrical union has taken on a high-profile organizing effort at North Hollywood's Star Garden Topless Dive Bar after dancers have spent months picketing.

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  • LA TIMES: STRIPPERS HAVE A NEW TACTIC IN A NORTH HOLLYWOOD LABOR FIGHT. ORGANIZING WITH AN ACTORS UNION

    LA TIMES: 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.

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  • BROADWAY WORLD: PHOTOS: ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION HOLDS LEGACY ROBE CEREMONY COMMEMORATING DAVID WESTPHAL

    BROADWAY WORLD: PHOTOS: ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION HOLDS LEGACY ROBE CEREMONY COMMEMORATING DAVID WESTPHAL

    Westphal, a former Equity councilor and staff member, passed away in February 2022.

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