Posts tagged Stripper Co-op
What happened to North Hollywood’s Star Garden, the nation’s only unionized strip club
September 24, 2026 // Since the NLRB complaint was filed in 2024, the club has not resumed normal operations with its 17 unionized dancers on an indefinite strike. Without a hearing, it’s uncertain if a union will operate anytime soon in a strip club industry valued at $7.7 billion. The Star Garden owners, Yevgenya “Jenny” Kazaryan and Stepan “Steve” Kazaryan, and their attorneys could not be reached by LA Public Press for comment. Stepan Kazaryan is also the registered owner of Dreams strip club in Wilmington. Other business filings show he owns Pink Diamonds Club in North Hollywood and Burlesque Enterprise Inc.
Beyond Unionizing: Strippers Run the Show in a Worker Cooperative
March 15, 2024 // Worker co-ops are not as popular in the U.S. as they are in other countries, but they are on the rise. According to the Democracy at Work Institute’s 2021 Worker Cooperative State of the Sector Report, from 2019 to 2021, U.S. co-ops grew 30%, and there are about 10,000 in the country. There is precedent for this – the Lusty Lady was a peep show in San Francisco that unionized in the 90s, became a worker-owned cooperative in 2003, and closed in 2013.