Suppress your chuckles when you hear the union planning to represent them is the Service Employees International. The film by Julia Query and Vicky Funari tells the story of the organizing campaign from Query's point of view. One of the points of the film is how ordinary and hard- working these lusty ladies really are. Query and her sisters have been drawn to The Lusty Lady establishment because it has a reputation as one of the cleanest, safest, most well-managed peep joints in town. It even has women managers, which seems somehow reassuring.
Sick days are verboten.
If you don't show up or find someone to sub for you, you're outta there. Racism is blatant, with women of color getting fewer and less desirable shifts. The final straw for the strippers is when they discover that customers have been surreptitiously shooting video of them and some of the footage appears on Internet sites. Negotiating a contract is a tense and tedious process. Leave it to management to play hard ball and even lock out the women.