LA strip club dancers vote to unionize: 'Finally... a seat at the table'

In what could define live entertainment history, 15 months after attempting to unionize, dancers at a Los Angeles gentlemen's club are one step closer to becoming the first group of strippers to form a union in America. During a settlement hearing with union club attorneys, lawyers representing management of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood agreed to withdraw election challenges and recognize the union, the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), an established labor union announced Tuesday. The bar's lawyers plan meet with the association, a national union "representing...