
Using coercion to force Hank's pen game seems to be a theme this season, huh? Charlie's nanny takes a day off At least Tyler was smart enough to catch on to the obvious, but in exchange for his silence now Hank has to read the little jerk's screenplay. Hank is due for one hell of apology in an episode or two. "Go back to New York, I like you better when you're there." Ouch. Things got even realer at the end when the Overly Judgmental Duo of Karen & Becca reunited to tear into Hank. From there on it became the Drea show as Karen invited her to stay and she quickly alienated the family with her ahem, special brand of humor, escalating to physical violence when Becca ( Madeleine Martin) gets defensive of Tyler. When she shows up with the wallet, Karen catches them outside at which point Hank covers for Bates by claiming Holly is his girlfriend. After graciously paying her off and more graciously, telling Bates that he didn't actually cheat on Karen, Hank brings the poor guy home to sleep it off. While Karen spent the night drowning her sorrows with Hank-who in his first of many scrupulous moments of the night, did not take advantage of the situation-her husband was bagging up Matteo's Holly the stripper. To recap, Bates ( Jason Beghe) is still very much off the wagon after Tyler's ( Scott Michael Foster) beverage bait-and-switch two episodes ago, and the bender is getting worse and worse. She had a very funny exchange with Hank at the beginning of the episode, but you don't cast Adriana for only one scene and when she showed up at Bates's house with his wallet and invited herself to dinner she quickly became the episode's MVP. Let's get this out of the way: Drea de Matteo killed it last night.

We've seen Hank butt heads with her suitors already, but sticking her in a relationship that Hank would rather not sabotage? It makes things much more interesting for us-and much harder for Hank and led to a new season high with "Here I Go Again." Guess who's coming to dinner Strippers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady organized the Exotic Dancers Union in 1996 and were affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, according to the Actors' Equity Association.Who knew Hank Moody ( David Duchovny) would be so willing to take a bullet for the "other guy"? Credit the writing team (or rather, creator Tom Kapinos, who is now seven for seven on script duty) for switching it up this season when it came time to give Karen ( Natascha McElhone) a new love interest by going with someone who Hank actually respects. Star Garden’s dancers are not the first strippers to seek union representation. The NLRB’s Los Angeles regional director issued a decision that the Star Garden did meet the board's standards for live entertainment venues and ordered a mail-in ballot election, according to the memo.īallots will be mailed to the dancers on October 14th and the ballot count will be held on November 7th. The owners of the bar argued at two hearings in September that they did not meet the gross revenue threshold of $500,000 to be under the jurisdiction of the NLRB. The owner of the Star Garden Bar could not be immediately reached for comment.

The Star Garden Topless Dive Bar dancers have picketed for months for better workplace conditions including better security and safer stages as well as higher compensation and access to benefits, according to Velveeta, a dancer at the bar who prefers to go by the stage name to avoid being blacklisted.Īfter initially presenting their petition to the club's owner, the women were denied access and could not return to work.
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If the majority of the estimated 30 strippers vote to unionize, they will join the Actors Equity Association, a union that represents 51,000 professional actors and stage managers.

From and Apple Inc to Starbucks Corp, unionization efforts are gaining momentum. Workers across industries and professions are increasingly seeking workplace protections and benefits through unions. Regulators from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) set a vote date in a memo on Thursday. NEW YORK, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Thirty exotic dancers at a topless bar in Hollywood, California are set to vote over whether to join the Actors Equity Association, and a majority "yes" vote would make them the only organized group of strippers in the United States.
