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Come and find out why the labour and trade union movement should support the Nordic model
With Unison soon to be debating the future of its policy on prostitution, ANNA FISHER encourages trade unionists to take a look at, and think carefully about, the disturbing reality of the so-called ‘sex trade’
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LATER this month, the Unison national delegate conference will be debating and voting on a motion to end the union’s long-term support for the Nordic model — because, it is claimed, it increases the risks for “sex workers” — and instead move towards supporting the New Zealand model, which, it is claimed, is so much safer.
Many similar motions calling for the “decriminalisation of sex work” as implemented in New Zealand have been passed by various trade unions and Labour Party branches over recent years.
Typically, the motions do not spell out clearly that “decriminalisation of sex work” (aka “full decrim”) means that all the actors, including punters, brothel-keepers and pimps (revamped as “managers”) would be decriminalised as well as those who sell sex.
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