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this group of North Beach cocktail waitresses, topless dancers and bartenders met with reporters to get one thing straight. They say they want no part of the culinary workers union. That union yesterday kicked off a campaign to put an end to what were described as atrocious working

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conditions reportedly suffered by women like these along with charges of low pay. The union said broadway's female employees often are forced to take drugs and sleep with their bosses in order to save their jobs charges that this group today considered an insult. You know, the whole

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accusation is just absolutely ridiculous. This is not one truth to it at all. It's just a big liar. I'm I'm married and I'm proud of it and you know, I don't like when somebody comes over to me and say that you know, I have to sleep

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with my boss. Can you see me grow sleeping with Gerry Freeland, my God, you know, I just don't, I don't feel like I have to do that to hear these women talk. You'd think they never had it so good. Lolita Rios today spokesperson says she is

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more than satisfied with the $50 she earns each night for an hour and a half worth of topless dancing. All of the women here claim they need no union and insisted they have never been pressured by their bosses to do anything that includes calling today's news

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conference in san Francisco rita Trevino, Channel five, Eyewitness news