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Helldivers 2 finally arrived this week after what felt like an eternity. The game launched yesterday across PC and PS5, and the launch has been pretty successful so far. In fact, it’s the biggest launch ever for a PlayStation-published game on PC.
Sony Interactive Entertainment, of course, created the mouthy label PlayStation PC to solidify its plans to more consistently bring more and more of its once PlayStation-exclusive titles to PC. These efforts started with Horizon Zero Dawn, and have continued since.
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LA’s Star Garden dancers set to become country’s only unionized strippers
After more than a year of organizing, a group of Los Angeles dancers is on the brink of becoming the nation’s only union-represented strippers, marking a new milestone in the country’s organized labor movement.
Strippers and their supporters at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood had been calling for better working conditions, pay, and on-site safety, which prompted a push to become the first group of its kind in the country to gain union recognition since dancers at the Lusty Lady club in San Francisco unionized in 1996. But for months the organizing demand was met with an ice-out by Star Garden management, which refused to engage in negotiations with the dancers.
In a Tuesday press release, the union announced that lawyers representing the owners of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar had withdrawn all election challenges and agreed to recognize the union. A union election vote count will be held on Thursday, May 18. Once the vote is counted, the National Labor Relations Board must certify the results. Star Garden employees can then formally unionize and engage in collective bargaining with management. The dancers’ chapter would be joining the Actors’ Equity Association, a national union for entertainment workers.
“Strippers are live entertainers. While some elements of their job are unique, they are essentially performance artists, and have a lot in common with other Equity members who dance for a living. Every worker who wants a union deserves a union,” said Actors’ Equity Association president Kate Shindle.
“If you have been following our journey, then you know this has been a long, exhausting fight, which is why this victory is so sweet. We put everything we have into this campaign, and we were fortunate to have the support and solidarity from the club’s patrons, our allies and friends, the labor movement and our union, Actors’ Equity Association,” wrote Reagan, one of the Star Garden dancers, in the announcement.
In 2022, the group led a “Stripper’s Strike” outside of Star Garden, prompted by the bar management physically locking out a group of employees who delivered a privacy and safety grievance to the club’s owners. The dancers alleged they weren’t being protected from aggressive customers, were filmed without their consent, and were forced to deal with arbitrary job requirements as contracted employees. Multiple dancers who attempted to bring up concerns were fired.
The Star Garden dancer-led picket line attempted to push management to address their concerns and discourage patrons (and fellow dancers) from entering the club until the group’s demands were met. They joined forces with Strippers United, a national strippers advocacy organization, and sought out pro bono legal aid prior to filing with the National Labor Relations Board in August and conducting its first vote last fall, with results put on hold due to employer legal filings and objections.
The owners of Star Garden filed for bankruptcy at the time, but are expected to work toward dismissing the bankruptcy and could reopen the club within 30 to 60 days, according to the union statement. The parties have agreed to meet within 30 days to negotiate a contract.
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Dancers at Star Garden had organized a wave of national support via social media, as seen on their Instagram page, @StripperStrikeNoho. The group had also called on supporters to sign their petition, “Star Garden Petition for Jobs and Safety”. Their latest push is a collaboration with Stripper Co-op, a dancer-owned strip “club” that operates through pop-up event series, to purchase their own club using grassroots fundraising efforts.
“I’m excited that all of my beautiful coworkers will finally have a seat at the table and a voice to discuss safety and other issues,” wrote Sinder, another Star Garden dancer, in the Actors’ Equity Association press release. “This is a big day for us and dancers everywhere.”
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This Site Will Help You Become A Better Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Engineer
Of all the new abilities introduced in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the crafting options made possible by Fuse and Ultrahand have really captured fans’ attention. Yet for every video of a cool battle mech or Korok torture device, there are just as many players struggling to figure out the engineering that goes into these contraptions.
Enter Zeldabuilds.gg, a site where players can share their favorite builds and get tips from others on how to piece together more intricate contraptions, as picked up by Kotaku. The site currently shows a picture of the build in question, along wih a list of components used to build it.
While there’s space for a description where some users have submitted build tips, most of the submitted builds are still lacking this element. You can also search by a specific component to see all the builds that use it.
Ring founder to become CEO of commercial smart home company Latch
Just a day after we found out Ring co-founder Jamie Siminoff was leaving Amazon and Ring altogether, it seems he will become CEO of enterprise smart home company Latch after it buys Honest Day’s Work (HDW), a little-known business Siminoff appears to have founded about four months ago.
The interim CEO, Jason Keyes, had this to say:
“I am confident Jamie’s passion for leading mission-driven technology companies, his operational expertise, and his track record for creating industry-dominating products will be invaluable as Latch enters its next phase. I am excited about the opportunity to further improve our customer experience via the integration of HDW services into LatchOS.”
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