Worker Compensation for Adult Industry

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell

(Chorus)
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Till every battle's won

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair

Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize
 
...I wonder if Peter North waits impatiently for the friday to have a little rest from his hard, exhausting job... And that on Monday he is depressed much that he's got to work again :1orglaugh

certainly, pornstars need a lot of compensation!
 
They are a union, those cookey bastards. Its like this, some people in the industry are good hearted people and some people are out to get you end of story.
 
I though they had a union.:dunno:

Didn't you click on the link?:nono:

They are not unionized. The easiest way for the adult industry to unionize is for the Screen Actors Guild to "absorb" the porn industry. I don't see the mainstream SAG Union wanting to do this...so a completely new union needs to be formed.

The quality of porn would improve, the safety would improve, and we could remove porn "from the shadows." Hell, MTV and VH1 are removing porn from the shadows already.
 
Exactly what kind of porn related injuries do you suppose would be covered by worker's comp.? Penis fractures? Creampies gone bad that turn into pregnancies?
 
Part of the problem is the fact people in porn, whether it's the producers or the performers, have always had a complete and utter inability to stick together for pretty much anything. Most of them are some of the most ruthless, unethical, greedy, mercenary-like scum that are involved in a legal business that the world knows, and a lot of them are even a lot worse than that. There is no artistic integrity of their work that they care about that might apply to other types of work that cause people to stick together. There is no helping out the person next to you. The entire business revolves around getting ahead and screwing, both literally and metaphorically, anybody you need to that makes you get ahead of everybody else. Even if their lives depended on it they would probably just end up dying instead of sticking together. Even in the rare incidents where something like that even remotely happens they do it because they see a way to somehow get ahead or exploit it and not because it's good for the industry, the people in it, or it's the right thing to do. When they no longer can exploit the situation they discard it like everything else.

Add to that the fact that the vast VAST majority of women in porn are easy to replace, (Why do you think most of them don't even last more than six months to a year?) and there is always some dumb young naive new woman coming in to exploit to replace the others, and it compounds the problem even that much more
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
Regardless of the intent and the power of the people behind the push, it’s likely this will be a long, hard battle that may not end up with a happy ending.

Now THAT'S good writing! :1orglaugh
 
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