Imperfect Paradise: Strippers Union: Part 4

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Part 4: Half a year after Star Garden reopens as a union club, the dancers are still negotiating a contract. LAist producer Emma Alabaster brings you the latest. Plus, some of the dancers have set their sights on a different dream: a worker-owned cooperative strip club.

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0:00.0	This is Antonia Serihi, the host of Imperfect Paradise.
0:03.6	You're listening to part four of our series Strippers Union,
0:06.9	the behind-the-scene story of the first U.S. Strip Club to unionize in decades.
0:12.1	Quick heads up, there's some explicit language in this episode.
0:15.0	On this episode, we find out what's happened in Star Garden
0:20.0	since the Strip Club unionized in August of 2023.
0:24.0	It feels like a battleground.
0:26.0	I've been written up for touching myself, crossing the black line,
0:31.0	vaping inside, walking on the floor without my heels on.
0:37.0	We get into a new aspect of the strippers fight to have control over their working conditions.
0:42.0	The stripper co-opop they started on the side.
0:44.6	It's just very common refrain to say well why don't you open your own club? Oh we're doing
0:49.6	that we will have our own club where we don't have to deal with a boss in this way.
0:54.0	So much talk about unions during the hot labor summer.
0:58.0	What about co-ops?
1:00.0	We visit a pop-up stripper co-op show that was like no stripping experience I'd been to or heard of before.
1:07.0	Burn the wicks!
1:11.0	Stripping witches, queer vampires, clowns, and labor laws collide in this episode about
1:16.6	sexy cooperatives.
1:18.2	LAS producer Emma Alabaster, who reported the Trooper's Union series, is here to talk me through the recent developments at Star Garden.
1:27.0	Hi, Emma.
1:28.0	Hi, Emma.
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