Imperfect Paradise: Strippers Union: Part 3

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Part 3: The Star Garden Topless Dive Bar reopens as a union strip club, but the fight doesn’t end there. What happens after the victory? LAist Producer Emma Alabaster has the story.

Here are some resources that informed our reporting:

Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (In particular, the essay "White Supremacy in Organizing" by Domino Rey)

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0:00.0	Alayas and show and tell present an evening with Fran Leibowitz.
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0:44.0	Hey, this is Antonia Cajido, the host of Imperfect Paradise.
0:48.0	You're listening to our series Strippers Union, part three.
0:52.0	The behind-the-scenes story of the first US strip club to unionize in decades.
0:57.4	Last time on imperfect paradise, the Star Garden dancers went on strike to become union employees.
1:04.0	Stryker United will never be divided.
1:09.0	And their campaign got pushback from other strippers.
1:12.0	The employee status thing ain't working.
1:14.0	We need to get the most people in the club to work.
1:16.4	It goes back to harm reductive solutions.
1:19.3	We also learned that Star Garden Management
1:21.8	challenged the union vote and then declared bankruptcy.
1:25.2	Buy the club! Buy the club!
1:28.2	Buy the club!
1:29.2	Which led the dancers to believe they had a shot at taking over the club.
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