Welcome to the GoFundMe for the United Brothel Workers (UBW) (A Division of CWA Local 9413) aid fund! We are a group of legal NV courtesans who decided to unionize after our employer refused to negotiate an unfair contract that gave them ownership over all of our intellectual property and gave them Power of Attorney to sign documents in our names in perpetuity. They wanted to own our images, our ideas, our inventions, and our likenesses, and make money off of them, forever.
We said "NO"
The Communications Workers of America (CWA), one of the nation's largest unions, agreed to help us become the first ever brothel worker's union in the United States. We met with the union, and got a supermajority of the women working at the ranch to sign cards within 48 hours!
Now more than 7 of us have been illegally and wrongfully terminated. While the CWA will eventually get us our jobs back, until then we need to pay our bills. Many of us support multiple people and even multiple households as sole breadwinners.
We are like other workers in America, we deserve a fair contract, we deserve good faith bargaining from our workplace, and we deserve to have agency, safety, and security.
We are working on other ways to support ourselves and any others of our number who are wrongfully terminated, but we need a little help until we can do that. Your donations would be used to give ourselves and wrongfully terminated co-workers the funds they need to make it through until justice prevails and jobs are re-instated.
from left (Jupiter Jetson, Molly Wylder, Adalind Gray) 3 of the workers wrongfully terminated from Sheri's Ranch for unionizing. Not Pictured; Paloma Karr, Genevieve Dahl, Gwen Bunny. Photos By Nikki Zee.
Paloma Karr, one of the first workers fired for union activity.
We have numerous video resources for those who want to learn more, or who just want to support our effort by commenting and sharing our videos!
If you want to support us in other ways, please visit the United Brothel Workers Website where you can sign our petition, keep up with current updates, and coming soon, Union Merch!
What are we fighting for?
- Ownership of our own intellectual property
- Control of our own names and signatures
- An end to wage theft in the form of predatory fees
- An end to tip theft in the form of "tip splitting"
Thank you so much for your support and remember; Bust Nuts not Unions!
Updates:
- Sheri's Ranch has illegally terminated more than 7 ladies for unionizing.
- The CWA legal team is working on getting our jobs re-instated
- We are close to approving final designs for merch. Pre-orders will be available soon.
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