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Buffalo Bills' cheerleaders handbook: Here is how to wash yourselves - Salon.com

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It turns out the world of professional cheerleaders is often anything but cheerful. If the claims of a new lawsuit are to be believed, it can be a job in which you have to fight for minimum wage while being told how to manage the landscape of your own genital terrain. Following in the footsteps of cheerleaders from the Raiders, Ravens and Bengals who've come forward this year with their tales of payment disputes and humiliating working conditions, this week the Buffalo Jills suspended all activities in the wake of the new lawsuit that five of its cheerleaders are pursuing against their team and its cheerleader management groups.

As the Buffalo News reports, the suit against the Bills — a team for which Mario Williams makes $6,500,000 — alleges it "failed to pay the former cheerleaders the $8 minimum wage for all the hours they worked … The five former Jills, who worked as long ago as the 2010-11 season and as recently as the 2013-14 season, were paid amounts ranging from as little as $105 to as much as $1,800 a year." And what obligation to the organization does this sort of money buy? According to documents obtained by Deadspin, "the Jills were subjected to weekly 'physique evaluations' during which defendants' representatives tested the Jills' bodies for 'jiggling.'"
These are the kind of sports organizations men cheer on and support everyday - how about you ladies?

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