Last week, 25 employees of Babeland voted overwhelmingly to join the RWDSU. Babeland is an adult toy store with three locations in New York City. Workers said the move toward union representation would help them address a number of wage and training issues, as well as concerns related more specifically to the nature of adult retail work and to a handful of transgender employees.
“This is the only adult sex shop that is organized,” Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the retail union, said in an interview. “And I think that’s significant.”