While I've taken up campaign headquarters at the local Lucky Devil Lounge, if I lived in San Francisco I would certainly be at the Lusty Lady.I've followed this story for some time now. It's good to see it getting more news attention. This was the first strip club in the USA that went union. This is what happens when your boss dicks you around. (The joke had to be made.) The boss' answer to the girls unionizing? He tried to shut down the club. So the strippers took it over and started their own peep show collective.
When strippers take over the clubThese ladies should be an inspiration to everyone.
The Lusties, as they call themselves, enlisted the help of other local co-ops such as Rainbow Grocery and Good Vibrations, a local female-run sex-toy shop.
They learned the ins and outs of running a collective business and hammered out articles of incorporation within days.
When the Lusty Lady went collective there was some debate about dropping the union. After all, if you work for yourself, why do you need union representation? From what I understand they decided to keep the union in place, just in case things got weird in the future. It takes some smart people to have enough foresight to say they might be capable of being on the other end of the dicking.
Portland may be the strip club capital of this country, but the clubs here have nothing on the Lusty Lady. They serve as a model and inspiration for both collectivism and libertarian free market economics.
Cake and Eat It!
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So the next time you get a lap dance, look for the union label!
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