Sex Workers’ Union @swunion_uk Twitter profile

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Sex Workers’ Union

5 months

We recently contacted @AdultWorkcom requesting the removal of their policy charging workers to advertise in a new location, and that all other charges should remain payable using credits. We will continue to push AW on this until we receive an appropriate reply.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

7 months

Our statement of solidarity with Palestine:

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 years

Amazing scenes outside @instagram HQ in London this afternoon. Sex workers demand a meeting with the company, clear policies and an end to blocking workers’ accounts.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

On International Workers Day we send our solidarity to all workers. Particularly the workers, who like sex workers, are still fighting for access to basic labour rights. (1/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 months

WE BEAT ANOTHER STRIP CLUB BAN! Over the last 2 years, our members have been fighting @Edinburgh_CC to prevent their workplaces from being shut down under a nil-cap. Today the council voted to keep the current cap of 3 in place, with an option for a worker run club to open. 🧵

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

For sex workers, this isn’t an extraordinary story, it is an all too common nightmare. Many of us have had our bank accounts closed without warning, further isolating us from participating in a society that already pushes us to the margins.

Aaron Bastani

@AaronBastani

11 months

This is an extraordinary story. The idea someone can not access banking because of their political views is deeply dangerous & at odds with living in a democracy. Without access to banking you can’t operate in a modern society - ideally it would be enshrined in law (1/1)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

6 months

Both @ASLEFunion members & sex workers deserve to run trains in safe working conditions. Which is why we will always stand (or split) in solidarity with ASLEF members - & all workers - on picket lines or in supporting union actions. Workers, united, will never be defeated ✊

ASLEF

@ASLEFunion

6 months

We support the call for safer conditions for sex work, advocated by @ukdecrimnow - this is a trade union issue, as is the safety of all workers.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 months

Criminalising sex workers does nothing but harm. Realistically, what does this achieve? Is this worker any safer with criminalisation? No, obviously not. Carceral policies surrounding sex work only serve to punish and inflict violence upon sex workers.

Dexerto

@Dexerto

5 months

OnlyFans model jailed in Turkey following the countries ban of the website

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

7 months

We are not going to engage with the misogyny, Islamophobia and fetishisation of violence against us that we’ve been subject to the last few days - but we do want to make one thing clear. Solidarity is not, and never should be, conditional. Especially in the face of genocide.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

3 months

Yet another article from the Morning Star using the deaths of sex workers to advocate for a criminalised regulatory framework that only inflicts more violence on sex workers. Sex workers need decriminalisation for our safety - not further criminalisation, not legalisation.

Morning Star

@M_Star_Online

3 months

Killing of three women in Austrian brothel highlights dangers of sex industry

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

Hi combabes, You may have noticed we've been unusually quiet recently, and there's a good reason for that. It was not an easy decision, but our sex worker branch recently voted to leave United Voices of the World, and formally dissolve United Sex Workers. (🧵:1/10)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

9 months

This is why we fight for the decriminalisation of sex work. When sex work is decriminalised, it will be subject to employment law and sex workers can access the rights, safety and recourse we are due - inc. the power to fight back against bad bosses.

Sex worker sues for sexual harassment…and wins

A world-first case has established that workplace harassment is inappropriate, no matter the nature of the victim’s work. What can Kiwi employers learn from the landmark case?

www.hcamag.com

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

On international wh0re’s day, we send our solidarity to every sex worker across the globe. We will continue to fight until we can all celebrate this day with full access to the safety, dignity, workers’ rights and protections we are due.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

3 months

Our statement regarding the UK Government’s Pornography Review #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 months

Hands up if you’re with us? 🙋

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

10 months

The financial exclusion of sex workers is an issue that is only getting worse, exacerbated by the fact individual sex workers often have neither access to justice nor the power to enforce change. It can have a devastating effect on the lives of already marginalised people.

M A Y A O P P E N H E I M 💃🏻 ✍️

@MayaOppenheim

10 months

Sex workers at risk of homelessness as ‘banks freeze their accounts’

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 years

This is HUGE news! (Thread) A @unitedstripper member just won a tribunal case for worker status! The judge has ruled that strippers are WORKERS not independent contractors.

Strippers union United Voices of the World (UVW) wins landmark legal victory proving strippers are...

UVW

www.uvwunion.org.uk

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 months

The financial discrimination facing sex workers is pervasive & has a devastating impact on sex workers’ financial security. Sex workers are frequently denied essential banking & payment services. We are able to work on fewer platforms due to payment processors anti-sw policies.

WishTender

@WishTender

4 months

Due to an unexpected policy change, Stripe has decided to part ways with WishTender. We are thrilled to announce that we've acquired a new financial partner, and we are collaborating with them to continue building the best wishlist platform for creators. We will continue to

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 years

Unionised strippers in Sheffield organised this beautiful action yesterday to defend their club - and livelihood - from the so-called ‘feminist’ groups, who use unlawful tactics to threaten SEV licenses. Strippers need unions, not saving! #SexWorkIsWork

Strip club dancers march to defend Spearmint Rhino

The protesters stopped traffic in Sheffield as they walked from Spearmint Rhino to the Town Hall.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

All solidarity to striking junior doctors! Both sex workers and doctors should be able to examine prostates in safe and fair working conditions.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

As there have been an increasing number of reports from sex workers about being detained/deported at borders, we’ve decided to collect some data on those experiences via a questionnaire. If you’re a SW who would be interested in sharing your experiences, DM us for access ❤️‍🔥

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

7 months

It is reprehensible that a Labour council leader is continuing to pursue the closure of Edinburgh’s strip clubs, forcing over 100 workers into unemployment or unsafe conditions, during a cost of living crisis. Especially utilising vast swathes of public funds to do so. (1/5)

Donald Turvill

@donturvLDR

7 months

NEW: Edinburgh council leader backs second attempt to ban strip clubs despite £208k legal bill #LDReporter

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

This is why we say disability rights are sex workers’ rights. Many sex workers are disabled, and make the decision to enter sex work because of the low pay, inaccessible conditions and discrimination disabled people face in more “traditional” workplaces.

Trades Union Congress

@The_TUC

11 months

BREAKING 🚨 | 7 in 10 disabled workers earn less than £15 an hour. Disabled workers are much more likely to be low paid than non-disabled people, our analysis reveals.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

9 months

Hey Onlyfans creators, Does it make you angry that you can barely get support, the website frequently doesn’t work, and 20% of the profits of your hard work are going towards this? Get unionised babes! Join us and fight for your rights.

OnlyFans owner pays himself $1.3m a day from UK-based adult content site

Company’s 2022 accounts show pre-tax profits up by 22% to $525m, while Leonid Radvinsky took $338m in dividends

www.theguardian.com

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

No matter what name they rebrand the Nordic Model under, one thing stays true, it increases the criminalisation, violence, danger and marginalisation sex workers face. It is reprehensible for MEPs to continue to push this model despite overwhelming evidence of harm.

European Women's Lobby

@EuropeanWomen

11 months

✊💜Adopt the Equality Model now! Following the adoption of the report on prostitution by @EP_GenderEqual , we had the pleasure to meet some of the most vocal MEPs supporting the abolitionist stance and choosing to be on the side of survivors, a crucial step to #EndVAWG !

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

Sex work is work and we are workers. We deserve safe workplaces, better conditions, the right to organise, unionise and hold our bosses, and the platforms our labour builds, to account. (2/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

10 months

Sex workers send our solidarity to orcas, seals and all unionising sea/ocean creatures, because we know what it’s like to be wet and frustrated. ✊

CBS News

@CBSNews

10 months

Sea lions at San Diego's La Jolla Cove aggressively barked and charged at dozens of tourists who were on the shore, including children.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 years

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers is December 17th 2018 #nosilencetoviolence It’s time to start listening to sex workers. Decriminalisation increases sex workers’ power in their interactions with clients, managers, police and landlords. It makes people safer.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 days

We’re at @BrizTransformed all weekend alongside our comrades at @ukdecrimnow ! Stop by our stall to learn about the sex workers’ rights movement, why sex workers need the full decriminalisation of sex work, and how you can support sex workers’ rights ✊

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

Violence and exploitation are no more inherent to sex work than any other form of work, it is a policy choice. Criminalisation creates conditions where violence and exploitation thrive. (6/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

2 months

Huge congratulations to strippers in Washington who have campaigned so successfully to enshrine their rights & protections at work. The bill, written by the workers, included a cap on predatory fees and anti discrimination protections. Solidarity, up the workers! ✊

Strippers Are Workers WA

@WorkersWa

1 year

Our Strippers' Bill of Rights SB 5614 has PASSED THE SENATE! This is SO exciting for the dancers of Washington State! SB 5614 is getting more rights and protections for dancers, and would legalize alcohol in WA clubs. Strippers Are Workers and Deserve Workers' Rights!

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

3 months

We’re sex workers, *of course* we’re unionised 📣 #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

“Sex workers ask to be credited with the capacity to struggle with work - even to hate it - and still be considered workers. You don't have to like your job to want to keep it.” [Revolting Prostitutes] Liberation for one is liberation for all. Up the workers. (8/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

Bullsh*t. These platforms enable workers to advertise themselves and find clients independently, therefore having more control over their working conditions. Shutting down those platforms would only lead to more exploitation, rather than less.

APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

@APPG_CSE

1 year

Today @DianaJohnsonMP asked the Home Secretary why she still hasn’t outlawed pimping websites – which traffickers use to advertise victims for sexual exploitation. The sites facilitate & enable sex trafficking, making it easier & quicker to perpetrate sexual exploitation. (1/6)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

Our members have already won worker status cases in strip clubs, have fought against exploitative practices on online platforms, battled financial exclusion, and have retrieved money from clients who tried to withhold payment. (3/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

9 months

❤️‍🔥Announcement for AW workers ❤️‍🔥 We’re aware that AW have been emailing some users, specifically non-U.K. nationals, to upload visible face pictures or risk having their account suspended. We’ve been in contact with AW and can now announce that AW have retracted this policy.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 years

More from our members fighting against threats to their jobs, livelihood and safety + a message to @NotBuyingItShef & other groups: no one asked you for help. Strippers are unionising to ensure better working conditions, so #RespectOurHustle and #BackOffRakoff

BBC Stories

@bbcstories

5 years

Campaign group, Not Buying It, secretly filmed in the Spearmint Rhino strip club in Sheffield. They say the film shows sexual acts taking place. Strippers like Ella feel their privacy has been violated and a job they love is under threat.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

We continue to fight for decriminalisation so all our work can be brought under employment law, and we can utilise those laws to uphold our safety and rights. (4/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

28 days

So brothel workers can formally unionise against their bosses and change their working conditions. So street based workers can work without fearing police harassment, fines and arrest. So workers can work together for safety. (5/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

8 months

This is your last chance to fill this out and help defend strippers’ safe workspaces in Edinburgh! If you care about sex workers’ rights, then take 5 mins out of your day to respond to the consultation linked below.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

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On international Labour Day we think of workers in prisons, of migrant workers and those who sought asylum and are banned from working. We mobilise our communities for the liberation of all people from the systems of oppression that bind us. (7/8)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

3 months

“We’ve had some councillors imply that we’re not even a trade union…We can’t imagine many other workforces, where the chosen representatives of workers would be so isolated from a process and decision that directly impacts the working conditions of those workers.”

Brit Dawson

@britdawson

3 months

huge congrats to dancers in edinburgh who’ve beaten the council’s proposed ban on strip clubs AGAIN! thanks to the dancers who spoke to me for this, as well as @swunion_uk and @ukdecrimnow – another major win! read about the two-year fight on @VICEUK here

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@swunion_uk

11 months

The STATE of journalism in this country. If you close down the platforms that enable workers to advertise their services independently, then you are forcing them into further exploitation and reliance on third parties. It is truly not a difficult concept.

Guardian news

@guardiannews

11 months

UK police accused by MPs of ‘cosying up’ to ‘pimping websites’

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@swunion_uk

4 months

Let this be a lesson for all local authorities, that when workers are united, we will never be defeated. Workers should, and will, be central to any decision directly impacting their working conditions. Up the workers! 💖

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

6 months

We send our solidarity to all @IWGBunion Deliveroo riders in the face of this hugely disappointing decision for gig economy workers. All workers deserve the right to unionisation and collective bargaining, especially those in workforces with very few existing protections.

Financial Times

@FT

6 months

Breaking news: The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Deliveroo riders cannot form unions or be recognised as employees in a landmark decision for the gig economy

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

We’re super excited to be attending @DurhamGala today to celebrate the community and solidarity of the working class. Say hi to our reps and pick yourself up a flyer with a basic decrim motion, so you can take the fight for sex workers’ rights to your own union branch ❤️

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@swunion_uk

7 months

Want to support sex worker artists? Get yourself a ticket to the hottest launch party this year for the Truth & Lies Anthology. Expect fierce performances, speakers from SWU and @NationalUglyMug , followed by the sluttiest set our DJ can spin. Tickets:

Truth and Lies Book Launch

Welcome all! - an evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@swunion_uk

4 months

This means none of the clubs currently licensed will have to shut down, with the additional amendment to consider a fourth license, in the case the workers in Edinburgh decide to open their own cooperative strip club in the future.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

10 months

Our members send their full solidarity to all @RMTunion striking workers today, because both sex workers and rail staff deserve the right to run trains in safe working conditions, with full workers' rights & protections.

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@swunion_uk

3 months

P0rn performers, content creators, make sure you have your say in the U.K. government inquiry on regulation p0rn - head to the NUM members’ area to share your thoughts.

National Ugly Mugs

@NationalUglyMug

3 months

Do you create or perform in adult content online? The UK government is running an inquiry on regulating p*rn (we got shadowbanned for saying it!) and we want to make sure your voices are heard in it! Head over to the NUM members' area and take our survey to share your thoughts!

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@swunion_uk

5 years

‘What Dancers Want’ is a mass worker’s survey, by strippers, for strippers. . Let’s make sure our voices are heard when it comes to decisions about licensing and dancers’ working conditions by taking the survey and sharing with fellow strippers.

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@swunion_uk

4 months

This is a huge win not only for our members, but for all strippers, in pushing back against the implementation of dangerous nil-cap policies. Closing down strippers’ workplaces prevents them from organising for better working conditions and accessing workers’ rights.

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@swunion_uk

3 months

The Independent Pornography Review led by @BertinGabby must centre the needs and rights of online sex workers and porn performers. Our statement, co-signed by @FSCArmy @NationalUglyMug @AIAorg @officialukap @backlashuk

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@swunion_uk

4 months

Despite facing the constant threat of losing their livelihoods, our members have tirelessly campaigned for their rights, including raising over £20k to take the council’s initial nil-cap ruling to a Judicial Review - where the nil-cap was declared unlawful.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

10 months

We spoke to @i_D about our Instagram account getting deleted, and the wider issue of Meta’s aggressive policing of sex workers’ accounts, alongside @bloggeronpole .

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

i-d.co

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@swunion_uk

11 months

Barbie says, join your union whores!

Sky News

@SkyNews

11 months

Whilst gracing the pink carpet, #Barbie star Margot Robbie said she supports the actors' strike and all the unions, and would be prepared to join the picket lines. Read more here 👉

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@swunion_uk

1 year

Let’s talk about censorship! For a long time, sex workers have struggled against deplatforming in an industry that requires an increasing online presence. Our Instagram accounts are blocked for even just being a sex worker, even if we are not necessarily posting explicit content.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 months

Thank you for the shoutout 💖 We’re extremely proud of the continuous work our members are doing to better the working rights and conditions of sex workers. All sex workers should have access to safety and equitable workers rights.

Kate Lister

@k8_lister

5 months

My sex experts of 2023 - and what we can learn from them @JoanPrice @beckymil1 @duxBritanniarum @RubinaPabani @Poppy_Jay_ @swunion_uk

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@swunion_uk

4 months

Solidarity with all striking delivery riders today ✊ Workers will striking across 90 zones, between 17:00-22:00, in what could be the largest platform strike in 5 years. Get yourself down to a strike zone (linked in tweet below) and show solidarity with delivery workers.

IWGB Couriers

@IWGB_CLB

4 months

BREAKING: Self-organised delivery riders in London & beyond to strike tomorrow! Riders are tired of long hours, low pay, no rights, dangers of the roads & harassment from police. The strike sends a clear message: This can't continue. United, precarious workers are unstoppable.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 months

We are extremely proud of every member that worked on this campaign, and fought against the odds for their rights and their safety. Thank you to everyone who donated to our fundraiser, who filled out the public consultation, and engaged with their councillors on this issue.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

One of our members recently took up a case against card payment machine provider SumUp, after they closed her account simply because of the work that enables her to survive.

Sex Worker Wins Anonymity In Landmark Case - EachOther

A member of United Sex Workers has been granted anonymity in her case against SumUp, a major card-payment machines provider.

eachother.org.uk

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@swunion_uk

6 months

Do you want to support sex workers, but have no idea what the difference between legalisation and decriminalisation are? @ukdecrimnow have got you covered! Read through their handy explainer of the different legal frameworks, and join the movement for sex workers’ rights.

DecrimNow

@ukdecrimnow

6 months

There are many different legal frameworks surrounding sex work, but only one that reduces harm to sex workers. Read through our handy explainer on the different regulatory models to understand the difference, and why sex workers are demanding full decriminalisation now. 🧵🪡

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@swunion_uk

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Solidarity to our SA sex work comrades, we hope you see the decriminalisation bill urgently returned and voted in place ✊

ASWA

@AfricaSexWork

11 months

How the protest happened #BringBackSASexWorkDecrimBill

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@swunion_uk

11 months

The financial exclusion of sex workers isn’t limited to this one company, but is endemic within the banking industry. VISA and Mastercards aggressive policies against sex workers have not only led to individual sex workers struggling to access banking, but have -

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@swunion_uk

9 months

If only the U.K. adopted evidence based policies surrounding sex work…

Mike Stabile

@mikestabile

9 months

🚨Australia announces it has abandoned a plan to mandate age-verification of adult sites, citing concerns about privacy, security and implementation, after nearly two years of study. It will instead focus on parental education around device level filters.

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@swunion_uk

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💖 EDINBURGH UPDATE 💖 Next Monday, February 5th, @Edinburgh_CC will decide on the number of strip club licenses allowed in the city. We are so pleased to see the responses to the recent public consultation are overwhelmingly in favour of the workers.

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@swunion_uk

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As members of @BFAWUOfficial , SWU members are able to access all kinds of fantastic training by the TUC, GFTU and Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung. Speak to your rep about learning opportunities, so we can be better union organisers and win power in our workplaces! ✊

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London Office

@RosaluxLondon

10 days

Just finishing another amazing political economy and organising course with @BFAWUOfficial members 🔥. There’s such energy and enthusiasm to get out there and organise - we’re so excited to see the union grow in strength power ✊

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@swunion_uk

11 months

We are the canaries in the coal mine. To use the words of Farage, which is not a statement we ever thought we’d say (truly the one and only time we will), “if they can do it to us, they can do it to you too” - and they will come for you, so stand up now.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

Even our personal bank accounts can be shut down without prior warning, leaving us unable to pay rent or bills, to feed ourselves, and putting us at risk of incurring debt, losing our homes and without any way to interact with an increasingly cashless society.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

8 months

SWU members, get your notepads ready because we’re hosting a series of organising workshops run by @IanAllinson on the 7th, 14th and 21st November at 6pm. If you’re a member who wants to learn how to unionise your platform, club or broth, then DM us to register your interest ❤️

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@swunion_uk

3 months

The “dangers of the sex industry” are largely created by criminalisation. Under both partial and full criminalisation, sex workers are forced to work in isolation, under threat of arrest, cautions and fines, and are prevented from accessing our work and human rights.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

3 months

It is shameful that a so called socialist paper, a paper of the worker, is so committed to campaigning against the rights of sex workers, ignoring the demands of our representative trade unions, and promoting a legal framework that kills us.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

2 months

Hi @realloyalfans and @fansly We have emailed you multiple times about your OSA compliance but you haven’t got back to us👋

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

Solidarity to all workers who have faced instances of sexual harassment or abuse at work. Every worker deserves safe working conditions, dignity and a workplace free from harassment. We urge any worker to join their union and hold their workplace to account.

Jonathan Kaye

@jpkaye79

11 months

@BFAWUOfficial @McDonaldsUK amazing what you read on way to a Regional meeting. Sexual harassment should not and will not be tolerated in any way shape or form. This union will stand by any member that makes any complaint against other members of staff

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@swunion_uk

11 months

Curtailed our use of the platforms we use to work. A major example of this is PornHub, who had VISA and MasterCard block consumers ability to make purchases on their site. Even Onlyfans prior threats to ban adult content in 2020 were due to pressure from the payment processors.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 months

💗It’s @The_TUC #heartunions week! 💗 We asked our members to share what they ❤️ about being in the Sex Workers Union and this is what they said 🧵:

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

“Workers with marginalized identities reported being hit hardest by the changes. Black performers, other performers of color, & trans and queer performers, were more likely to suffer compounding effects from the change in policies than their cis, white, or straight counterparts.”

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

10 months

What’s wrong babe? Have you not filled out the public consultation to protect the working rights and jobs of Edinburgh’s strippers yet?

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

6 months

We fully support @ukdecrimnow ’s campaign for the full decriminalisation of sex work. Criminalising sex work does not make it go away, it only makes working more dangerous for sex workers. Sex workers deserve safety, and to live without the threat of arrest and violence.

DecrimNow

@ukdecrimnow

6 months

Criminalisation has failed to reduce sex work. It has failed to keep sex workers safe. Criminalisation puts sex workers in danger. Sex workers demand full decriminalisation now. But we need your help to achieve it. 🧵🪡

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

CONGRATULATIONS! We are so so pleased for all the workers who fought for their rights, and pulled off an incredible campaign to become the only unionised strip club in the USA. We absolutely love to see it! Up the sex workers! ❤️‍🔥

Equity Strippers Noho

@EquityStripNoHo

1 year

The NLRB just counted our votes and it’s official!! We are UNIONIZED!! We did it!!! 🙌🥹

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

VISA/Mastercard implemented strict restrictions for all “speciality merchants”, dictating what content sex workers’ can sell, and placing even more stringent regulations on how they upload them.

Sex Workers Detail the Financial Damages of Mastercard’s Discrimination

A survey of sex workers shows that 90 percent experienced detrimental effects to their livelihoods after the credit card company implemented stricter rules for the adult industry.

www.vice.com

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

9 months

@fuckyouiquit We’ve already got a union in the U.K. babes 😘

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

Within our time at UVW, our members have achieved incredible things, and won historic victories for sex workers' rights across the U.K. (4/10)

How We Won: The Stripper Who Took Her Club Boss to Court | Novara Media

A stripper, with the help of her union, made history by achieving a landmark ruling that saw her legally recognised as a worker. Stacey Clare reports.

novaramedia.com

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 months

That is the only purpose of criminalisation, to cause harm to sex workers. To make sex working so untenable that it becomes too dangerous to work, without tackling any of the root causes of why people sex work. To attempt to police us out of existence & visibility.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

11 months

“Fat performers -identified models, are the most likely group to see detrimental effects (they’re also disproportionately targeted by social media algorithms that ban nudity). When these identities intersect, the effects are felt even more strongly.”

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 months

This is why we’re organising against the financial exclusion of sex workers. If you’re a sex worker in the U.K. who has experienced financial discrimination, DM us to fill out our questionnaire. Get involved in the fight for your rights -

Join BFAWU today!

Join the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), the largest independent Trade Union in the food sector in the British Isles.

join.bfawu.org

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 years

Join us this Friday, 24 May, 1-3pm for a public action in support of fellow sex workers affected by Instagram censorship. Organised by @UVWunion member @katsandcrows . Meet outside Instagram offices in Regents Place, London. See you there.

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

5 years

Next strippers union lunch: 26 June, 3pm @TheCommonHaus . We will welcome new members, share campaign updates and plot together how to save clubs and make the industry a better place for workers. - strippers only - #RespectOurHustle

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

9 months

The Edinburgh public consultation on the number of strip clubs allowed in the city closes at the end of this month. If you’ve not yet filled it out, this is your reminder! Do your bit to protect Edinburgh strippers’ jobs and safe workplaces 👇

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 year

UVW was the first union to give us a home, and we will always be grateful to them for providing us with the opportunity to not only organize our fellow sex workers, but to build collective power as part of a hugely successful, grassroots, migrant worker led, union. (3/10)

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

4 years

SUPER IMPORTANT - Two days and less than £1K to raise necessary funds to defend sex workers’ rights and smash a particularly nasty and exploitative boss in court. Please give as much as you can and share far & wide. We can do this!

Defend sex workers' trade union rights!

We are a community law centre providing specialist legal advice, casework and representation in Employment, Housing, Asylum/Immigration and Welfare Rights Law.

www.crowdjustice.com

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Sex Workers’ Union

@swunion_uk

1 month

“Research by the Sex Workers Union and campaign group @ukdecrimnow found that more than 80 per cent of SWU members have experienced some form of financial discrimination.” Read more below 👇

DecrimNow

@ukdecrimnow

1 month

“The current laws and stigma that surround sex work are what create the supposed ‘risk’ for financial institutions.” We spoke to the @FinancialTimes about financial discrimination facing sex workers. Sex workers need full decriminalisation now.

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