Strippers are workers’ strippers’ bill of rights (sb 5614)

Strippers Are Workers has created our Strippers’ Bill of Rights legislative bill SB 5614! For 5 years we have organized and built consensus with dancers to develop a bill that will address issues in the Washington adult entertainment industry and get dancers more workers’ rights and protections. With lawmakers, Strippers Are Workers has presented our bill SB 5614 in the 2023 legislative session.

Our bill will include:

• Legalization of alcohol service in clubs

• Eliminate back rent practices (indebting dancers to clubs)

• Regulate high dancer house fees 

• Mandatory training for club employees

• Minimum security staffing requirements in clubs

• Anti-discrimination protections

• Independent Contractor Affirmative Protections

• Panic Button requirements

• Customer Black Lists requirements

Strippers Are Workers has developed SB 5614 to get our WA industry up to par with the rest of the country and to revolutionize workers’ rights for dancers! Washington is the last state to not have some form of alcohol service, and alcohol service has been found, by strippers and scientific research, to actually make clubs safer and more equitable. With our bill, SB 5614, we are stopping harmful industry practices that utilize power imbalances between clubs and dancers to exploit them for profit and labor. Dancers deserve to do their work equitably, safely, and without stigmatization.

Learn more about how to support SB 5614 and dancers' rights: