It campaigns for the decriminalisation of prostitution , and to have sex work acknowledged as viable labour. In , members voted to affiliate with the GMB , a general workers union. The union now has official recognition as the sex industry branch of the GMB.
The union was formed in partly as a response to actions taken by Westminster City Council in London to try and remove prostitutes from the area. The International Union of Sex Workers supports the x:talk Project , which provides free English language classes to migrant sex workers in London. They are a member of Backlash , a pressure group formed in in order to oppose a new law criminalising possession of " extreme pornography ".
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