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Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired its entire company of dancers, after they unionized (www.dallasnews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/dfw@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12260489

Dallas Black Dance Theatre terminated its entire company of dancers Friday, according to a statement posted on social media by the labor union representing the dancers. A national organizer for the union confirmed Saturday that nine dancers were impacted.

A statement jointly posted on Instagram by the American Guild of Musical Artists and an account run by DBDT dancers responded to the company’s actions: “AGMA is aware that Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) leadership just terminated all their dancers, and we are appalled. This abrupt and shocking development is the latest in a series of actions the Company has taken since the dancers voted unanimously to unionize.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn. Y'all realize that's illegal, right? Like, it's common knowledge that trying to fire a bunch of employees in a brand new union is pretty illegal, right?

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Yup 100% illegal. I wonder if the location closed down as well, only way they could potential get away with it.

This is why bigbox stores like Walmart lease their stores. If they find a store trying to unionise they just close the store and say the area was not profitable. Scummy as hell but legal because the store "closed" and no longer exists, thus no union for the store.