SF peeps, kinda sad! "Since 1997, when unsavory work conditions prompted it to become what is believed to be the first strip club in the United States to successfully unionize, the Lusty Lady has been San Francisco’s answer to a mainstream strip-club industry that many Lusties dismiss as exploitative and paternalistic. The Lusties are some combination of Rosie the Riveter mixed with “Showgirls”—they tend to be feminist, queer, punk-rock types rather than the tanned, buxom blondes seen at many strip clubs. They belong to the Service Employees International Union, report to a purple-haired shop steward, earn hourly wages and overtime, and terminate workers only with “just cause.” Until, as elsewhere in SF, the landlord tripled the rent.....
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 00:45:15 +0000