LOS ANGELES — Star Garden, a North Hollywood topless dive bar, violated labor law when it fired three strippers and locked out 15 others for raising concerns about their health and safety, the National Labor Relations Board said.
Star Garden and its workers grabbed headlines when dancers began picketing outside the club and dissuading customers from entering by describing conditions they said were unsafe. Eight dancers told The Times in interviews that management told security not to interfere when customers threatened dancers' safety.
The complaint, issued Tuesday by an NLRB regional office in Los Angeles, finds merit to allegations by a group of strippers who protested outside Star Garden for months after they were barred from working in late February.
