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Nude models brave cold to protest low pay
Reuters ^
| 16 December 2008
| James Mackenzie
Posted on 12/17/2008 1:19:01 PM PST by george76
Artists' models in Paris stripped naked Monday, braving freezing temperatures to protest against a ban on tips and to demand better pay and recognition.
More than 20 male and female models, some posing nude while others were draped in a colorful array of shawls, sheets and fur coats, took part in the protest that had the backing of two of France's biggest labor unions.
The action was triggered by a recent decision by the Paris authorities to enforce a ban on artists' tips, known as "cornet" after the rolled-up cone of drawing paper in which painters traditionally dropped some money for their models.
"We're very badly paid and it's always been that way," said model Carole Kras, who joined others in the courtyard of a 16th century palace that houses the Paris cultural affairs offices.
"We've always had the 'cornet' to make up for some of that but now they want to get rid of it," she said, as shivering colleagues got dressed after briefly disrobing.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Humor; Outdoors; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: france; globalwarming; laborunions; paris; unions
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:19:01 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
“We're very badly paid and it's always been that way,” said model Carole Kras... Hey, you are simply posing nude! Why don't you get a job that actually does something useful?
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:21:39 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
To: george76
I only came in to read the article, honest.
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:22:28 PM PST
by
Gator113
("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
To: george76
Kinda makes for interesting mental images of “pokies” doesn’t it?
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:22:28 PM PST
by
tom h
To: george76
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:22:41 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: george76
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:22:49 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: tom h
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:23:32 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
braving freezing temperatures to protest against a ban on tips I'm sorry, but that just made me laugh. If they wanted to ban tips, they went about it the wrong way.
To: george76
"We're very badly paid and it's always been that way," said model Carole Kras, who joined others in the courtyard of a 16th century palace that houses the Paris cultural affairs offices. Unskilled labor draws unskilled wages.
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:23:49 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
To: george76
Clearly, they need to unionize. That’ll raise their wages, improve their benefits, and make life easier.
[/sarcasm]
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:24:14 PM PST
by
tom h
To: george76
Tips... Hah Hah She said tips... /Beavis&Butthead mode
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:24:19 PM PST
by
csvset
To: george76
Artists' models in Paris stripped naked Monday, braving freezing temperatures to protest against a ban on tips and to demand better pay and recognition.These 'professionals' are too stupid to deserve a raise - at least the guys are. What fool would disrobe in the middle of winter, and not be doing it for laughs?
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:24:25 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: george76
I think I could offer them minimum wage to lay around my place.
To: george76
Warning!
What is seen can't be unseen!!!
It ain't pretty!
AP Photo at this link
See, you just had to click the link, didn't ya!
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:26:11 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: george76
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:26:11 PM PST
by
MovementConservative
(Not a Bush Republican, a Limbaugh/Levin conservative.)
To: george76
"We're very badly paid and it's always been that way," said model Carole KrasStanding around naked isn't the most demanding job. Maybe if you sang a few songs, did some dancing, and mixed a few drinks you make get a pay raise.
To: CharlesWayneCT
I'm sorry, but that just made me laugh. If they wanted to ban tips, they went about it the wrong way.LOL, I don't care who you are, now that's funny.
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:26:40 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: CharlesWayneCT
they went about it the wrong way. Oh, I don't know, they must have had at least a couple of good points.
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:26:49 PM PST
by
tbpiper
(Now irate and tireless, but mostly irate.)
To: TomGuy
Why is it that the people who like going around naked, are precisely the people that you don’t want to see naked?
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:27:31 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: xcamel
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posted on
12/17/2008 1:28:02 PM PST
by
IrishPennant
(Patriotism is strongest when accompanied by bad politics, loyal FRiends and great whiskey)
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