One Minneapolis city council member is working to provide healthier and safer work conditions for strip club dancers. I hope this doesn't lead to the California effect with the recent changes happening there. Mileage here is low enough the way it is now. Chief among the proposed changes is regulating the "tip outs" dancers need to share with other staff.
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Obviously there is nothing scientific about a few conversations with local dancers. But several have brought this up when I’ve been in clubs. So far, not a single dancer had a favorable view of how the city handles anything regarding clubs and they are afraid of losing their customer base because of Minneapolis’ meddling. Unfortunately, it’s not a surprise to see the City trying to make itself feel better at the expense of the ladies and their business.
Fucking government. When they pass laws to protect workers it always ends up hurting workers. Unexpectedly !
The final step will be a licensing regime, hundreds of hours of government designed training courses, age discrimination rules, sensitivity training, trans gender protection for hiring. Then, they will be shocked as clubs close. Shocked, I tell you.
The scariest words in the English language - "we're from the government and we're here to help"
Can’t speak for all places, but KoD already does security escorts when leaving the club. (Granted, technically not Minneapolis but close enough 😝)
Also, what are they going to do about tip outs? It’s an easy work around by simply upping the house fee and making it mandantory to pay it all up front.
And what’s with the tone of “Gordon learned most of the dancers are independent contractors” right after talking about tipping out? It’s almost like they are trying to blame the employee model for the practice.
But from what I’ve heard second hand, Ricks (who takes on dancers as Employees) does take more of the portion of dancer earnings than Seville (a typical IC club). Possibly DTC as well but not sure.
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