The Dallas Black Dance Theatre, under fire for terminating its dance company, is now at risk of losing a large grant from the city of Dallas.
The Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to delay a decision about a nearly $250,000 grant.Council members did not feel comfortable providing the money to the Dallas Black Dance Theatre without knowing more about why 10 dancers were fired following a vote to unionize."On May 29, we voted unanimously to form a union at Dallas Black Dance Theatre. When we spoke about the retaliation we were experiencing in the wake of that decision, we were all fired.
The dancers said there was nothing wrong with the video set to the "Family Matters" theme song.Theater board president Georgia Scaife reiterated that the firings were not about the union."We have not in any way done union busting. We have dancers that we’ve hired to replace these dancers that are part of the union. I don’t think that qualifies as being union busting," she said.
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