It makes Star Garden the first unionized strip club since the now-defunct Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle. Just as at Star Garden, many of the recent union victories have occurred in workplaces that previously seemed resistant to labor drives. And like many of those other workforces, the Star Garden strippers faced a long battle against management to achieve that goal. Workers voted in a National Labor Relations Board election in November 2022, but management opposition prevented the labor board from counting the ballots until last week. Star Garden may be the country’s only unionized topless bar.