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 entire company of dancers,” said Terrell Rogers Jr.
Rogers was one of those dancers and urged the council to withhold funding from the organization.
“Real change is needed,” he said.
The National Labor Relations Board has launched an investigation into the allegation of union busting.
Griff Braun, the national organizing director for the union representing …