Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee

IWOC
Full name Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
Founded July 31, 2014 (2014-07-31)[1]
Journal Incarcerated Worker
Country International
Website incarceratedworkers.org

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) is a project of the Industrial Workers of the World. Its purpose is to unionize incarcerated individuals.

On September 9 2016[2], the IWOC helped organize a U.S. prison strike on the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising.[3] The strike involved an estimated 24,000 prisoners in 24 states, the largest prison strike in U.S. history.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "About IWOC", retrieved July 5, 2017
  2. ↑ Speri, Alice (September 16, 2016). "The Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History Enters Its Second Week". The Intercept. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Kim, E. Tammy (3 October 2016). "A National Strike Against “Prison Slavery”". The New Yorker. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Hylton, Antonia (October 3, 2016). "We spoke to the inmate in solitary who inspired a national strike against 'modern-day slave conditions' | VICE News". VICE News. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
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