Labor Union Blog

From the Marines Memorial Theatre to the Lusty Lady, San Francisco’s great unionized performance and art houses are getting visits today during a 13-site walking tour through labor history.

The “Bay Area Now 5″ annual exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is featuring the walking tour and gallery installation it calls “Syndicate.” Along the way, artist Jessica Tully will be installing sidewalk stencil images of union workers based on historic photos in front of major theaters and art museums throughout the city.

The sponsors say the walking tour “unearths the sometimes historic, sometimes mundane and sometimes downright sexy union organizing occurring at each venue.”