Blue Collar (and Face) Workers Unite!
The Blue Man Group voted last month to be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 720 (not the pipefitters union), but the election is being challenged by Blue Man management, which has hired the high-powered Washington law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld -- described by the Las Vegas Review-Journal as "the New York Yankees of its profession."
This is only the latest in a series of union disputes for Blue Man Group, which set off a boycott in Canada last year for utilizing non-union performers.
Blue Man Group's political leanings are also a matter of some debate, evidenced by their appearance in a global warming video and the subsequent deep thinking it inspired on The Huffington Post.
If the Blue Men strike, at least there won't be any singing or chanting on the picket line.
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