Sex workers to go on strike to demand decriminalisation and full workers’ rights (Metro)

Thousands of prostitutes, escorts, strippers, porn stars and phone-sex workers are set to go on strike on International Women’s Day.

They are marching to demand decriminalisation and are calling for the Government to improve their working conditions – by making them pay tax.

Sex workers across the country are set to walk the streets on Friday night to protest unfair and dangerous conditions they say are caused by stringent prostitution laws.

Although prostitution is legal in the UK, other related activities such as soliciting in a public place, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering are criminalised. Read more

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