Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Charger Girls finally have something to celebrate
Assembly Bill 202 affords cheerleaders a little more dignity and respect
2014 Charger Girls
On April 8, the state Assembly's Committee on Labor and Employment moved forward a bill authored by San Diego's former labor leader and current assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez that requires sports teams to pay fair wages to cheerleaders. The bill is now one step closer to a full vote.
The bill, according to Gonzalez’s office, will "better protect cheerleaders of professional sports from workplace abuses and bring equity to the multibillion-dollar professional sports landscape by treating their teams as employees under California law."
Proper pay for professional football cheerleaders has become an issue in recent years. In 2014, five professional football teams — the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — were sued by cheerleaders for not paying a reasonable wage. In September 2014, the Raiders paid $1.25 million to settle their lawsuit. Earlier this month, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers paid $825,000 to settle one as well.
"News reports and lawsuits detail that, in addition to sub-minimum wage pay, cheerleaders of professional teams have been forced to spend thousands of dollars in unreimbursed costs on travel and personal appearance as well as work unpaid overtime —practices that would be illegal under the law but were found to be commonplace pressures on teams’ cheerleaders despite the tremendous profits being gained by the teams they cheered for," reads a press release from the assemblywoman.
Added Gonzalez, “[Assembly Bill] 202 simply demands that any professional sports team — or their chosen contractor — treat the women on the field with the same dignity and respect that we treat the guy selling beer.”
(corrected 4/14, 8:20 p.m.)
Here's something you might be interested in.
Charger Girls finally have something to celebrate
Assembly Bill 202 affords cheerleaders a little more dignity and respect
Charger Girls finally have something to celebrate
Assembly Bill 202 affords cheerleaders a little more dignity and respect
2014 Charger Girls
On April 8, the state Assembly's Committee on Labor and Employment moved forward a bill authored by San Diego's former labor leader and current assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez that requires sports teams to pay fair wages to cheerleaders. The bill is now one step closer to a full vote.
The bill, according to Gonzalez’s office, will "better protect cheerleaders of professional sports from workplace abuses and bring equity to the multibillion-dollar professional sports landscape by treating their teams as employees under California law."
Proper pay for professional football cheerleaders has become an issue in recent years. In 2014, five professional football teams — the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — were sued by cheerleaders for not paying a reasonable wage. In September 2014, the Raiders paid $1.25 million to settle their lawsuit. Earlier this month, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers paid $825,000 to settle one as well.
"News reports and lawsuits detail that, in addition to sub-minimum wage pay, cheerleaders of professional teams have been forced to spend thousands of dollars in unreimbursed costs on travel and personal appearance as well as work unpaid overtime —practices that would be illegal under the law but were found to be commonplace pressures on teams’ cheerleaders despite the tremendous profits being gained by the teams they cheered for," reads a press release from the assemblywoman.
Added Gonzalez, “[Assembly Bill] 202 simply demands that any professional sports team — or their chosen contractor — treat the women on the field with the same dignity and respect that we treat the guy selling beer.”
(corrected 4/14, 8:20 p.m.)
Comments