SALT LAKE CITY — Employees of the SunTrapp, a long-standing LGBTQ bar in downtown Salt Lake City, are entering their third week of a strike over wanting to unionize.

Morgan Sturgill, who is participating in the strike, said the talk of unionizing started over the summer.

“There's been a couple of scenarios where if we had talked about what we wanted before, there was a chance of being demoted, or chance of being let go or just being treated differently afterwards. So it was primarily for that protection,” Sturgill said. “But honestly, the biggest one is policies. A lot of us just want clear guidelines for discipline, a clear employee's handbook.”

Sturgill said earlier this month they had a meeting with the owner.

“About two hours after that meeting, we had all received text messages st

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