Good Luck,... I guess....
...never understood such 'job action' like this when those with demands have zero leverage to begin with. Reminds me of the final days of the Hudson Bay Company, and how workers were striking demanding better pay, from a failing business model that refused to adapt to modern times. Not that is similar to the plights of sex workers, except for the simple idea is that you need leverage in order to see your demands met. This isn't some blue-collar industry job, like the Teamsters, where such job action can cripple the country's economy, all for the fight of safe working environments and fair pay. A sex worker stops working, what happens? Men get blue-balls and keep limping to the next street corner, next neighbourhood, next city, next country until they get that release. We're talking about sex workers saying "no", and not realizing there are plenty of other venues for men to go to see their sexual aptities fulfilled. Where's the threat?
And like the Hudson Bay Company, how viable has the strip club industry been these days? Never been to Montreal myself, but here in Vancouver we lost Brandi's and the Gallery recently.... proving high rent and the impossibility of getting any business license for opening a new club... The strip club scene anywhere seems to be dying, so does this union have such leverage?... Just like HBC, they're fighting for scraps AS the ship itself is sinking.... it's just weird...
And also consider the 'hypocrisy' angle to this too... Ain't like these ladies walking off the job, can't go home and fire up the Only Fans cam and rake in those simp-coins. Kind of defeats the purpose of striking if those ladies are being scabs behind the picket lines. Nor would these ladies "re-brand" themselves, and start their own Incall service on the side.... the whole point of a strike is to stand by your convictions. If their legs are closed for business there, then it has to be everywhere else...
I understand how dangerous their line of work can be, and why this needs to happen... but again, what's the leverage?
If anything what should happen is seeing these women take more control over their destiny, beyond just unionizing, and create their own strip club and their own rules and expectations.... which I know is simple thing to say, because it all depends on which so-called puritan City official is willing to sign off on any business license to put a strip club anywhere. But if strippers and sex workers always claim they make great stacks money for being that good in what they do, 'makin' it rain', 'gettin' dem gains', <insert soulless rap verse about the club scene here>, then maybe the burden is on them to seek alternatives instead of burning their gains on their G6 fantasies to Dubai or some other Pitbull bullshit high-life music video fantasy... re-invest, break new ground.... be the next Dolly Parton running the "Best Little Whorehouse in [Canada]."....
