Star Garden
6630 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91606
North Hollywood exotic dancers walk off job to protest unsafe work environment
nicespice
https://www.change.org/p/star-garden-pet…
Interesting stuff here. Idk how I feel about this.
Granted, this is California and a lot of clubs make dancers employees anyways. So they might as well unionize and fight for their rights after the clubs out there used the whole thing as an excuse to f—everyone over big time. (As opposed to other areas in the country where clubs have managed to quietly classify dancers as employees without extorting them and without fanfare happening)
BUT it does make wonder if all this is yet one step closer to the end of free mobility to go between clubs. I’ve noticed a lot of the younger dancers in certain discussion groups have posted and asked “what is so bad about being employees anyways” with us older ones responding in some way equivalent to “stfu —being an independent contractor is a GOOD thing”)
But either way, I figure if this walkout has that many dancers backing it—it probably was just a terrible club and they had it coming. So…go them!
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Some feel that unless they are made into employees, then there will be lawsuits later on.
Others point out that this will destroy the industry and that other states will follow suit.
I agree.
We have to move to the Private Party / Membership Club model. Then we can have it as good as Tijuana.
SJG
What we need to make our clubs as good as TJ is to get around employee status and state and local ordinances and the public sex and lewd conduct laws as they apply to retail businesses.
Done right, the Private Party / Membership Model does it. Its the legal compliance model pioneered by Swingers Clubs. Except that here it wont be Creepy Republican Wife Swappers.
SJG
SJG
About Shailynn we cannot say the same.
SJG
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SJG
At the Club, we navigate a room which is regularly full of belligerently drunk men who push our boundaries and often scare us. Our employer should not prioritize customers’ desire for entertainment over our health and safety. When customers become drunk, we expect the bar to cut them off, as is required by law. When customers film us performing without our consent, we need the Club to demand that they stop. "
You have to be a weirdo to oppose that
Now I don't disagree with some of this, like asking the club to eject guys who physically assault them or to put a stop to filming. But the devil is always in the details. It's one thing to remove the most egregious activities, yet quite another to make the place a dancer utopia.
When the dancers decided to handle this by walking out on a Friday night, they really left the club owner no choice but to fire them immediately, before they could begin any type of protected unionizing activities (now that they are employees). A walkout for so-called "hazardous" conditions is not the same as a protected strike. I'm sure they were advised by counsel that the further these girls got down the organizing road the tougher it would be and under no circumstances should the club owner start collectively bargaining with them.
A strip club can never be made 100% safe and survive as a business. By its very nature it attracts "perverts" and some will inevitably go too far. Unless you put glass between the dancers and customers, like they do in some European clubs or they did in the now defunct Lusty Lady, unwanted contact will occur from time to time. While a club can certainly adopt policies to manage and maybe limit this (like prohibiting LD contact and putting it out in the open), there is no way to completely prevent it without making the place non-viable.
I'm guessing that this club was already the last stop for some bitter girls who couldn't tolerate most of the higher mileage clubs in the area. But even still it wasn't enough that guys already weren't allowed to touch them during dances - they needed the club to serve as alcohol police and otherwise micromanage customer behavior too.
I think that’s the equivalent of a Vegan eating bacon for breakfast every morning but this sap is too stupid to understand the correlation.