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.