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A group of strippers who performed at a North Hollywood topless bar voted to form a union.
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A group of strippers who perform at a Los Angeles topless bar is planning to form a union after walking out on the job to protest work conditions.
The strippers, who routinely appear at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, voted to unionize in late March, according to BuzzFeed News.
If successful, they would operate as an independent entity under the auspices of Strippers United, which describes itself as a “diverse and inclusive community of strippers” seeking to “dismantle whorephobia and decriminalize sex work.”
Strippers United is federally recognized by the National Labor Relations Board.
Earlier this week, Star Garden strippers asked management to recognize their union — just weeks after walking out on the job to protest work conditions.
The strippers also filed complaints with California authorities alleging that the club is guilty of several safety violations, including broken glass, furniture with bed bugs, infestation of rats and cockroaches, rusty nails protruding on stage, and white substances falling from the ceiling.
Exotic dancers at Star Garden have for months chafed at what they say are inadequate working conditions at the San Fernando Valley establishment.
In March, a customer recorded video of a topless dancer at the club and then refused to delete it — a violation of the club’s policy, according to USC Annenberg Media .
When one of the dancers complained to management, she was fired, according to the report. Her fellow dancers, who were also upset that security guards aren’t allowed to intervene without first getting permission from management, decided to strike in protest.
“At the Club, we navigate a room which is regularly full of belligerently drunk men who push our boundaries and often scare us,” the striking strippers wrote in an online petition .
“Our employer should not prioritize customers’ desire for entertainment over our health and safety.”
The petition continued: “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.”
When the strippers who walked out tried to get back to work, they were prevented from doing so, according to reports.
The Post has reached out to Star Garden for comment.
This would be the first time since 1996 that a group of exotic dancers voted to unionize.
According to The Nation , live nude dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Peepshow club voted to form a union and join the Exotic Dancer’s Alliance, or SEIU Local 790.
One of the unionizing strippers, Antonia Crane, wrote that the union managed to secure a contract that included “regular pay raises, antidiscrimination and grievance policies, and removal of the one-way glass that violated our security and our privacy.”
"We like what we do. We would like our jobs even more if we had basic worker protections," said one of the strippers who works under the stage name Velveeta, in statement released by the union.
Among the issues that the strippers say they want addressed are the club's security guards repeatedly failing to protect dancers from threatening and abusive behavior from patrons.
"We're like so many other workers who have learned that it's not a choice between suffering abuse or quitting," she said. "With a union, together, we can make needed improvements to our workplace."
No members of Star Garden Enterprise, the owner of the club, could be reached for comment Wednesday. They also did not respond to a request for comment for an earlier story by CNN .
There would be about 30 strippers eligible to vote on whether or not to join a union, according to Actors Equity, a 109-year old union that represents 51,000 actors and other professionals who work in everything from Broadway shows in New York City to onstage performers at Disney World and dozens of theaters across the country.
"Strippers are live entertainers, and while some aspects of their job are unique, they have much in common with other Equity members who dance for a living," said Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle. "In my conversations with them, these dancers reported consistent compensation issues - including significant wage theft - along with health and safety risks and violations. They want health insurance and other benefits, like workers' compensation."
Strippers at the club have been holding informational pickets since March to protest working conditions, ever since two performers wer fired eand more than a dozen others signed a petition demanding their reinstatement. There have been 15 strippers locked out of working at the club since then, they say, and an unfair labor practice complaint was filed against management with the NLRB. The union is arguing that those locked out strippers should be allowed to vote in the union election.
Velveeta, who said she hasn't worked since March, said in an interview Wednesday that $50,000 in donations has been raised for an "action fund," similar to a strike fund, to help support the locked out strippers.
She is surviving on help from the fund, she said, and from savings and some acting jobs while some of the strippers have found work at other clubs. She wants to have a union to improve working conditions at Star Garden, rather than have to find work elsewhere.
"Star Garden is an example of the worst of the worst. But every club has problems," she said. "Some clubs are better than others, but none are ideal."
Velveeta, 31, has been working as a stripper for five years. She said the clubs don't pay anything, and demand half the strippers' tips.
"Sometimes you can leave with less than minimum wage, if it's slow," she said. "But if you have a good customer come through you can make up to $500 in a night."
There has not been a union of strippers in the United States since the nation's only unionized strip club, the Lusty Lady in San Francisco, closed in 2013, according to Actors Equity.
In many US locations strippers are classified as independent contractors rather than strip club employees, and organizing them into a union poses significant legal hurdles. California has protections for many workers classified as employees who might be considered independent contractors elsewhere.
While about one third of government workers belong to a union, according to Labor Department statistics, only 6.1% of workers employed by businesses are union members. Many workers in film and television belong to various unions, but most private sector union members are concentrated in a few specific industries, such as manufacturing, airlines, construction and health care.
There have been increasing efforts in recent years to organize workers in service sector businesses , such as the union organizing drive now going on at Starbucks.
-- CNN's Natasha Chen contributed to this report
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Updated 0255 GMT (1055 HKT) August 18, 2022
New York (CNN Business) Strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, have filed with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to join the Actors Equity Association, a union of performers and other show business professionals.
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Around mid-year we update our Senior Strippers list with a birthday of a cartoonist around this time. However there are no 90th birthdays on our list for mid-2022 (the next on our schedule isn’t until 2023).
But we have added a few since last year.
Most recently Playboy cartoonist and children’s book author/illustrator Don Madden , whose birth in 1927 means he should have been added years ago. But we just discovered him due to a recent post on the Hogan’s Alley Facebook page.
Others added due to discovery is Judy Dixon and Bernie Hurlbut. Then there are those cartoonists whose birthdays in the last half of last year and in this year got them onto the list.
So this seems a good time to update our Senior Strippers roster for 2022, cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”
Below is, as best as we can determine, a list of cartoonists who continue to carry on past 90 years.
comic book and comic strip cartoonist AL JAFFEE March 13, 1921
comic book artist LILY RENEE PHILIPS May 12, 1921
* French cartoonist CHRISTIAN GATY February 9, 1925
editorial cartoonist JIM IVEY April 15, 1925
* Belgian cartoonist DINO ATTANASIO May 8, 1925
cartoonist and illustrator SANDY KOSSIN June 4, 1926
gag cartoonist GEORGE BOOTH June 28, 1926
comic book artist FRANK GIUSTO September 6, 1926
comic book and comic strip artist RAMONA FRADON October 2, 1926
illustrator HILARY KNIGHT November 1, 1926
cartoonist PIERRE “PEB” BELLOCQ November 25, 1926
editorial cartoonist JUDY DIXON January 5, 1927
comic book and comic strip cartoonist HY EISMAN March 27, 1927
comic book and comic strip artist YAROSLAV HORAK June 12, 1927
illustrator and comic book artist MORT KUNSTLER August 28, 1927
comic book and comic strip cartoonist JACK KATZ September 27, 1927
magazine cartoonist WAYNE HORNE September 27, 1927
gag cartoonist/book illustrator DON MADDEN October 14, 1927
comic book and comic strip artist SY BARRY March 12, 1928
comic book artist MARTY ELKIN March 12, 1928
comic strip artist SYDNEY JORDAN May 28, 1928 (1931?)
comic book cartoonist BOB BOLLING June 9, 1928
comic book and comic strip artist JOE GIELLA June 27, 1928
comic book and gag cartoonist DON OREHEK August 9, 1928
cartoonist JULES FEIFFER January 26, 1929
cartoonist ARNOLD ROTH February 25, 1929
cartoonist PAUL COKER March 5, 1929
caricaturist and illustrator EDWARD SOREL March 26, 1929
editorial cartoonist ART VAN RHYN April, 1929
cartoonist and puzzle maker DICK ROGERS June 19, 1929
comic book artist VIC CARRABOTTA June 24, 1929
French Disney artist PIERRE NICHOLAS July 22, 1929
comic book artist DON PERLIN August 27, 1929
comic strip and gag cartoonist FRANK HILL September 10, 1929
comic book writer and editor SID JACOBSON October 20, 1929
editorial cartoonist CHARLIE DANIEL December 14, 1929
comic book artist JOHN ROMITA January 24, 1930
cartoonist BERNIE HURLBUT February 18 (12?), 1930
magazine cartoonist TED TROGDEN April 14, 1930
editorial cartoonist YARDLEY JONES May 2, 1930
comic book writer and artist AL WIESNER July 2, 1930
comic book publisher JIM WARREN July 29, 1930
cartoonist R. O. BLECHMAN October 7, 1930
cartoonist PAUL FRANK GRAY October 10, 1930
cartoonist and illustrator EDWARD FRASCINO November 11, 1930
animator PHIL ROMAN December 21, 1930
comic creator and writer BILL OWENS February 1, 1931
animator GERALD POTTERTON March 8, 1931
magazine cartoonist MORT GERBERG March 11, 1931
cartoonist RENZO ORRU March 24, 1931
magazine comic artist/illustrator JIM SILKE May 19, 1931
cartoonist SEYMOUR CHWAST August 18, 1931
gag, editorial, and comic cartoonist WALT LARDNER September 1931
comic book and strip writer/artist LARRY LIEBER October 26, 1931
* French cartoonist PIERRE LE GOFF February 21, 1932
Spanish comic artist JOSEP MARTI February 28, 1932
* French Cartoonist CHRISTIAN GODARD March 24, 1932
comic artist ANGELO TORRES April 14, 1932
*late additions thanks to Martin Desroches (see comments)
Sadly missing from last year’s roster is Ernie Poignant , Wayne Thiebaud , Roger Bradfield , Mel Keefer , and Orlando Busino . Also dropped is Emil Abrahamian – Lambiek’s Comiclopedia says he passed in 2020.
Corrections and additions are welcomed and encouraged
Christian Gaty-French cartoonist-February 9, 1925
Dino Attanasio-Belgian cartoonist-May 8, 1925
Chistian Godard-French cartoonist-March 24, 1932
Pierre Le Goff-French Cartoonist-February 21, 1932
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