Just because you’re a sexline worker…
… doesn’t mean you don’t deserve protection at work.
As much as I have expressed reservations in the past about the GMB’s policy of unionising women selling sex, the support they’ve given to this woman who works in the wider sex industry is impeccable:
A sex chatline worker who was sacked for refusing to work in an office full of staff smoking cannabis and snorting cocaine while dealing with premium-line punters has won a case for unfair dismissal.
The case - believed to be the first of its kind in the sex industry - was brought by the GMB union, which has expanded its membership by recruiting prostitutes and chatline staff. [...]
Ed Blissett, GMB regional secretary, said: “No matter what industry people work in they have a right to be treated fairly. This is the first case that a trade union has won at an employment tribunal for a worker in this part of the economy.”
Apparently Ana Lopes of the International Union of Sex Workers and GMB is speaking at an OULC event on 7th February, anyone fancy coming along?
