Hunter Southall at OnLabor.org reports on the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and its plans to organize demonstrations within every prison, jail and ICE Detention Facility in North America.  The Union organization is demanding prison reform and the end of what they call “legalized enslavement.”  Incorporated in 2014, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee is a prison-led chapter of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a National Labor Relations Board-certified Labor Union representing nearly 9,000 Workers from all industries in the U.S.  However, none of the prisoner-led Inions of IWW are recognized by the NLRB.  Outside of prison, IWOC has 21 Locals across 16 U.S. States and in Washington, D.C., as well as a United Kingdom branch.

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