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.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That should be illegal.
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
It is per the National Labor Relations Act. It’s up to the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) to enforce it and they typically don’t fuck around.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Is it illegal? My understanding was that the union means the employers only option to terminate was to indiscriminately terminate them all. It’s possible that it’s illegal to terminate them for the act of unionising, if that’s what you mean though
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It is