Equity in the News

The owners of Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood expect to recognize and negotiate with a union of strippers who had been dismissed from the club in March 2022, when they protested for safe working conditions and picketed outside for months.

Dancers at a bar in Los Angeles are poised to become the only organized group of strippers in the United States after their employer agreed to recognize their union, marking the culmination of a 15-month effort that is a victory for long-marginalized adult-entertainment workers across the nation.

The club agreed not to block the dancers from affiliating with Actors’ Equity, a move that would be the industry’s first unionization since the 1990s.

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 entertainment industry involves more than just A-list actors. Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) share how their new bill aims to give tax parity to low- and middle-income performers.

Equity’s perspective on the WGA strike, how it may affect the Tony Awards and more.

Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow.

The Actors' Equity union reached an agreement with The Broadway League, the organization representing show producers.

Membership voted to approve the contract after the union had issued a strike threat earlier this month.

The planetarium lecturers at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles have unionized.