Update September 11th: More today on this story. Feds setting an example?
This is an update about Agriprocessors the Iowa meatpacking plant we have been writing about, the same outfit that has flooded Postville with Somali workers. (Hat tip: Blulitespecial)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The owner and managers of the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant were charged Tuesday with more than 9,000 misdemeanors alleging child labor law violations.
They’re accused of hiring minors and, in some cases, having children younger than 16 handle dangerous equipment such as circular saws, meat grinders and power shears.
The allegations are the first criminal charges against operators of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, where nearly 400 illegal immigrants working at the facility were arrested in May in one of the largest single-site immigration raids in U.S. history.
For more on the trauma to Postville, go here.