Lapdancer strips veil off Las Vegas casinos
By Duncan Campbell for The Guardian

Las Vegas has always been famous for its dancers offering bittersweet entertainment for the late-night losers at the gaming tables. Now one dancer is making her place in history in a way not envisioned by choreographers.
For six years Andrea Hackett, 49, was a lapdancer at the Deja Vu club. Now she is attempting to unionise the Nevada city's exotic dancers and challenge the casinos.

She is no stranger to challenges. An anti-war activist in the 1960s and a union militant in the 80s, she faced prejudice in 1995 when she changed gender and George became Andrea - a tall, dark-haired woman with the laidback repartee of a nightclub comedian.

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Strippers of the world unite
Sex workers have finally won the right - taken for granted by the rest of the workforce - to join a union. Clare Rudebeck for The Independent talks to table dancers at a London club and asks them how it's affected their lives.

"I love my job. Everyone's relaxed. There's no bitchiness. We all work together as a team," says 27-year-old Frances. "I was sick of being stuck in dead-end retail jobs, earning bad money. Why do that when I can come here, earn a good wage and go home happy?"

Minutes later, she is dancing on stage at Majingo's, a table-dancing club in London Docklands.

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Wow, I haven't laughed this much in a while. The quote that really gets me from this article is "Everybody wants a little bit more of the pie in any industry."