American Girl Place crew votes union

Actors’ Equity serves as representation

By GORDON COX

Adult actors and assistant stage managers who work legit performances at Gotham’s American Girl Place have voted a second time to unionize, with Actors’ Equity serving as their bargaining representation.

Thesps at the multilevel toy superstore, which produces original one-act musicals for its shoppers, have been hoping to unionize for more than a year, going so far as to picket for two days in summer 2006 and filing a charge of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board.

The board upheld that charge and supervised a vote to unionize about a year ago. The move was approved, but American Girl challenged the results.

No date for talks between Equity and American Girl have yet been set.