Posted on 10/02/2006 6:05:09 AM PDT by SmithL
Where else but San Francisco could a flap about the heft of the nude dancers at a peep show wind up as a union grievance?
That's just what's happened over at North Beach's Lusty Lady, the town's only employee-owned, employee-run, fully unionized flesh arcade.
Like a lot of San Francisco businesses, the Lusty Lady prides itself on diversity, offering up dancers in a variety of sizes, shapes, ethnicities, attitudes and tattoos.
But like a lot of North Beach clubs, business at the Lusty -- while steady -- isn't what it was a few years back during the dot-com years, so every customer and dollar counts.
That's why it was such a big deal in July, when someone booked an entire night of "BBW" entertainment -- big, beautiful women -- and the clientele reacted by walking out.
The counterman wrote up the customers' objections -- "I came for fantasies, not nightmares" being one of the more printable ones -- and sent them off in what he thought was a confidential e-mail to the club's board of directors.
However, one board member, who worked as a Lusty dancer, took offense and plastered a printout of the e-mail on the dressing room mirror for all the entertainers to see.
Talk about an ugly situation.
. . . "It sort of became a guy versus girls thing," Lorellie said. "Some said, 'Fire him.' Others said, 'Fire her.' "
Instead, the Lusty board suspended them both.
Then, after talking over the situation with no fewer than three lawyers, the board fired the dancer for making the e-mail public and reinstated the counterman
. . . The dancer, meanwhile, has filed a grievance against the club through the Service Employees International Union Local 790, which represents all the Lusty workers and managers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The club can put whoever they want on stage and the patrons are free to walk out if they wish. However printing the e-mails and posting them in the dressing room is just plain nasty.
Now I'm going to sit back and watch this thread because I think it's gonna be interesting.
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Please, please, please, PLEASE...NO PICS!!!!!
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