So much for Solidarity - ICTU and sex workers

Brian
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:02:54 +0000
ICTU, Sex, Sex work, Work, The Left, Workplace, National, Magazine, Analysis, Wendy Lyon

In 2012 The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) made a submission to the Irish government’s public consultation on the prostitution laws. Most of it was just a cut-and-paste job of text sent to them by the Turn Off The Red Light campaign, which seeks the introduction of the Swedish model. But there is one part of ICTU’s original contribution which I found remarkable. A few paragraphs down the submission cites – clearly for the purpose of endorsing – the view of the Technical, Electrical & Engineering Union‘s General Secretary that “prostitution could not be considered work”.