New Union For Strippers, Who Have Historically Been Seen As Independent Contractors Rather Than Employees.
On a recent Saturday night, a group of dancers in outlandish costumes held signs outside the Star Garden topless bar in North Hollywood, urging customers to stay away. Dancers claimed they had been locked out for four months because they had petitioned club owners to reinstate two fired colleagues and improve security and safety measures. Strippers haven't successfully form a worker union since the effort at San Francisco's Lusty Lady in the 1990s, but dancers at the Star Garden were trying anyway.
That is to a great extent in view of fruitful unionization endeavors at behemoths like Starbucks (SBUX), Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL), which snatched features and motivated others to send off their own — including staple laborers at a Massachusetts Trader Joe's and a gathering of creation l...