The union campaign is over at the Medieval Times dinner-theater chain. The American Guild of Variety Artists says it will no longer represent workers at the company’s locations in Lyndhurst, New Jersey and one in Southern California, where workers organized.
Two years after voting to unionize, neither group was able to secure a collective bargaining agreement. They had sought higher wages and improved safety for the actors, crowds and the horses used in Medieval Times’ shows. The Medieval Times company hired a consultant to resist workers’ organizing efforts and allegedly engaged in a number of union-busting practices like giving raises at locations where workers did not pursue unionization.
