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Detained Workers’ Rights – Challenging “Voluntary” $1 Per Day Labor in Private Immigration Detention
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 @ 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
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Private corporations operate almost all immigration detention in the United States. These companies provide ICE cheap and efficient detention services in part by relying on a captive labor force: the detainees in their care. Faced with inflated commissary prices and the threat of solitary confinement and deportation, detained workers’ run these facilities as cooks, porters, and janitors for $1 per day wages.
But detained workers are creatively challenging these exploitative labor practices through organizing strikes, administrative advocacy, and class action lawsuits.
Join the Plaintiffs’ Law Association, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, the Berkeley Immigration Group, and the Public Interest Scholars Program for a lunch panel to learn more from currently and formerly detained workers as well as advocates and attorneys about these efforts.
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