{"id":48021,"date":"2026-05-16T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/48021\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:12:52","slug":"montreal-strippers-threaten-to-strike-during-the-formula-1-canadian-grand-prix-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/48021\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal strippers threaten to strike during the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’re a fan of motorsports, May 24 is a big day for you with the Indianapolis 500<\/a>, Coca-Cola 600 and Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix all taking place on the same day.<\/p>\n

And, if you happen to be a stripper in Montreal, where the F1<\/a> race is taking place, it’s one of your busiest weekends of the year.<\/p>\n

And that’s precisely why they’re planning to go on strike.<\/p>\n

\"Stripper <\/p>\n

Strippers in Montreal could strike during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, one of the busiest of the year for local strip clubs. (iStock)<\/p>\n

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The Sex Work Autonomous Committee (SWAC) is hoping to use the uptick in business that has traditionally come with an F1 weekend<\/a> to make a statement as the strippers fight to be treated as employees, which comes with a certain set of rights.<\/p>\n

At the moment, strippers are treated as independent contractors, like plumbers.<\/p>\n

Their words, not mine.<\/p>\n

“As strippers, we are considered independent contractors, this \u200bmeans that on paper we are treated the same as, say, an independent \u200cplumber \u2060that you would hire for your home repairs,” a SWAC statement reads, per Reuters<\/a>. “The independent contractor plumber is responsible to no one but themself, while the independent contractor stripper is responsible \u200bto club management, \u200bat the \u2060expense of their job.”<\/p>\n

\"Formula <\/p>\n

Formula 1 races can impact local economies in ways you may have never thought of. (Photo by Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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I mean… I can see where they’re coming from.<\/p>\n

And what better way to draw attention to the plight of Montreal strippers than by striking on their biggest weekend of the year?<\/p>\n

It’s already working. I’ve never been to Montreal, but I’m already way more informed about the nature of stripper employment than I ever thought I’d be.<\/p>\n

Using a sporting event and the business that comes with it to draw attention to a labor dispute is pretty common.<\/p>\n

\"Canadian <\/p>\n

A visit from Formula 1 has apparently been a good thing for strip clubs in Montreal over the years. ((Photo by Artur Widak\/NurPhoto))<\/p>\n

But, there’s another wrinkle in Montreal: in addition to the potential stripper strike, the Montreal Canadiens are one win away from making the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n

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If the Habs win Game 6 against the Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final will be in Montreal on May 24, the same day as F1’s Sprint and Grand Prix Qualifying.<\/p>\n

So, things might get a little nutty north of the border next weekend, but there may not be any strip clubs to blow off some steam.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re a fan of motorsports, May 24 is a big day for you with the Indianapolis 500,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,21275,50,21274],"class_list":["post-48021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-formula-one","tag-montreal","tag-outkick-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}