clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead:

A quick explanation of what BoLI does bc I know a lot of people really don’t know.

So, again with the misinformation from Elle and Claude da Corsi:
BoLI doesn’t just go around randomly picking strip clubs to convert to an employee format. If BoLI is indeed working with seven strip clubs it’s because workers at these clubs called BoLI and made a complaint. BoLI truly does not get involved without workers at the club first working hard to build a case that what’s happening is wrong, with evidence provided.

And then, BoLI doesn’t just take the workers’ word for it; they actively investigate and weigh the way the workers are treated against the contractor test.

Which most clubs in Portland fail, we all know this by now, even Elle and the PacWest lobbyists had to admit that ultimately.

I hope fr those who’ve been part f this ongoing conversation, you’re seeing the contradictions here.

If we ARE treated as employees–and thus ARE employees–right now, there is no legal reason that the way we’re treated (wrt scheduling, picking music, costumes) needs to change. We’re employees now, clubs should continue scheduling us in the same way. There is no legal foundation for them to suddenly start taking our lap dance money and in fact the opposite is true: courts in California and a federal court in Nevada found that lap dance money belongs only to the dancers, clubs CANNOT take stage fees, tipouts, or any part of lap dance money.

The ONLY difference should be that we’re ALSO being paid an hourly wage which has taxes automatically taken out, with employees covering the payroll tax.

And that’s what clubs don’t want to do, which is why they’re having Elle spread all these lies that they’ll take such and such money, start using quotas, bar dancers from picking music. We’re employees NOW and that doesn’t happen, the ONLY reason they’re talking about that is to make employee status look so scary and unappealing that dancers CHOOSE the less shitty option of continuing to be treated as we are now (as employees) but without any of the rights.
This is what déjà vu has done all over the country and it is ILLEGAL. It keeps standing unchallenged because the women who sued to create even the OPTION of employee status were exhausted and demoralized by the process (it’s fucking terrible) and didn’t have enough energy left to keep fighting.

But BoLI is involved now, and Portland strippers are very vocal. There’s no reason to accept what Johnny, da Corsi, Elle, and ACE (association f club executives) are trying to pull. Absolutely NO reason. So don’t. Don’t fucking accept it.