Unionized strippers picket San Francisco club

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/02/02 | Associated Press

[MikalM]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Workers at the nation's only unionized peep show walked the picket line Monday, complaining that the Lusty Lady is trying to cut their pay and sick time.

Wearing pink T-shirts that read "Bad girls like good contracts," dancers banged on pots and chanted "Two, four, six, eight, Pay me more to gyrate!"

[cmsgop]

This can't be series !!!!!

[The Mayor]

unionized

[cmsgop]

I have never seen a stripper, can you post a pic ?

[MikalM]

This can't be series !!!!!

If you meant serious, it is. The Lusty Lady is under union contracts -- probably the only business of its kind in America that is.

[Argus]

Robin Williams didn't call San Francisco "a human wildlife preserve" for nothing.

[mdittmar]

"No Pay,No Play!"

"No Justice,No Piece!"

"No Pay,No T&A!"

[ZOOKER]

Where do you "Look For the Union Label"?

[Tigercap]

"We want respect," said Vivian, 27, who has worked at the Lusty Lady, in the city's touristy North Beach district, for a year and a half.

Try getting a job where you don't remove your clothing for money, then.

[MikalM]

LOL! Always the quips with you Freepers...

Here's a good article about the background of the strip club's unionization

[SamAdams76]

Socialized lap-dancing. I do not think Lenin or Marx would be amused.

[Fintan]

I have never seen a stripper, can you post a pic ?

Sure. No problem.

[45Auto]

Unionized workers at the Lusty Lady

[Mr. Mojo]

"We want respect," said Vivian,

LOL

[Iowa Granny]

Wearing pink T-shirts that read "Bad girls like good contracts," dancers banged on pots and chanted "Two, four, six, eight, Pay me more to gyrate!"

Didn't want you to miss this one, fellas!

[MikalM]

And in holiday garb, no less! How appropriate.

[LuigiBasco]

[germanicus]

Wearing pink T-shirts that read "Bad girls like good contracts," dancers banged on pots and chanted "Two, four, six, eight, Pay me more to gyrate!" "We want respect," said Vivian

Right.

[No Truce With Kings]

A union organizer goes into a brothel. He asks if it is unionized. Told no, he states that he only gives his business to union shops, and asks if there are any union cathouses in town. He also states that he will pay twice the going rate, but only at a union shop.

The madame, of course, laughs him out of the place, so he goes to the next place down the block, and repeats the performance, with the same result.

After he has hit four more places, word has gotten out on the street, and a lady of the night comes up to the union man, and tells him that while she is non-union, she knows where a union shop is and for $10, she will take him there.

He agrees, and she leads him to a place on the other end of the red-light district. The madam, in on the joke, has put up a little sign announcing that the place is unionized. She welcomes the organizer.

"That's more like it," he says, handing over the money -- twice the going rate, and eyeing a room of young lovelies. Finally, an old, haggard hooker comes up to him, and tells him to come with her.

"But," stammers the man, "I want one of the OTHER girls."

"Too bad," says the madam. "Ethyl has senority."

[What Is Ain't]

Wearing pink T-shirts that read "Bad girls like good contracts," dancers banged on pots and chanted "Two, four, six, eight, Pay me more to gyrate!"

"We want respect," said Vivian, 27..."

Can't imagine why you don't get it.

[VMI70]

Oh to be a labor lawyer.

[Darksheare]

Why does this remind me of the brainchild that Mario Cuomo had aways back with legalising prostitution in NYC and then taxing it out of existence?

(If it WERE legalised, then there'd have to be quality control and inspections.... That opens up a whole other can of worms..)

[Iowa Granny]

I have never seen a stripper, can you post a pic ?

Sure. No problem.

Be still my heart!

[Carry_Okie]

Bet they drive a hard bargain.

[smoking camels]

PEEP SHOWS? Yuck! Puke material.

Ever see the kind of people that go there? I went once and never again!

[uncbob]

Damn That guy gots an EIGHT PACK

[cmsgop]

I guess I asked for that, you Sly Fox.......LOL!

[DaGman]

I'm kinda curious. Just where would you find the union label?

[Rockitz]

Ping!

[Paleo Conservative]

Where do you "Look For the Union Label"?

Isn't it tatooed to their butts?

[weikel]

Dear god if they start deciding who gets to lap dance on a seniority basis I think thats the sign of when to leave the country.

[IronJack]

"We want respect,"

Then get a respectable job.

[Notforprophet]

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that there haven't been better pictures posted of these: our union sisters!

Oops... thought this was DU for a moment. In any case, please proceed with the pictures anyway.

[strela]

If they fail to get their pay raise, can they a-peel?

[Cobra64]

any way to make your barf.gif larger?

[Cobra64]

Try getting a job where you don't remove your clothing for money, then.

Monica did.

[viaveritasvita]

They want respect! LOL!! What an incredibly stoopid stoopid remark. I have no respect for naked stoopidity. The pretty boys in post 12 are as faggy a group as I've ever seen -- gag me!!

[MHGinTN]

Change the pixel numbers to 128 and 64. [They are 64 and 32 for the one posted above.]

[B4Ranch]

"We want respect,"

It's a good thing none of these girls is my daughter because not only would I feel as though I had failed as a father but she would surely be in much pain trying to live with my boot between her cheeks.

[WhirlwindAttack]

Where do you "Look For the Union Label"

That's the fun part. Expensive though.

[Yehuda]

Damn That guy gots an EIGHT PACK

You mean the "one" on the far left?!