![]() Mandatory trainings, like what food service workers go through to get food worker cards, will equip them with knowledge. What Amber and other dancers are trying to create with this bill are resources for dancers. Nobody tells you 'management can’t do that.'" Well, there’s more now because of the internet." But, that's information dancers have to seek out on their own. “When you start dancing, nobody trains you,” Amber said, “there’s no information. House Bill 1756 and Senate Bill 5724 will implement mandatory trainings for dancers meant to educate them about their rights as workers and how they should be treated. Together, with the help of Working Washington, a grassroots bill they created to improve the working conditions of dancers has made its way successfully through the House and, as of last week, is on its way to the Senate. This year, she and a group of other dancers took their complaints to Olympia. “So, that kind of flipped something in my head.”Īmber has been a stripper for 13 years. “I thought ‘Wow you’re lying to my face, you think I’m stupid, and you don’t really care about us at all,’” Amber told The Stranger. ![]() When she brought it up to club management, they assured her there were cameras back there, that she was safe. If he had his hands around her neck, strangling her, no one would know. ![]() If something were to happen-she shuddered to think about a man sexually assaulting her or trying to kill her. ![]() They’re dark, there’s loud music playing, and they’re walled off for privacy. Let's get some panic buttons in here, ladies! Igor Sinkov/Getty ImagesĪmber didn’t feel safe in the VIP rooms. ![]()
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