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The pole dancers at North Hollywoods Star Garden Topless Dive Bar have been waging a prolonged labor struggle with the bars management and are planning to make history by joining Actors Equity. Snyders retirement a quintessential moment of jumping before youre pushed is a much needed albeit incomplete step forward toward greater accountability within the labor movement. For too long labor leadershipoften fairly criticized as male pale and stale has been characterized by a selfreplicating good old boys culture that fosters harassment and misconduct. Although this is far from the norm it is all the more egregious in a movement built upon notions of justice and equity.