Thread: Agriprocessors still attempting to hire illegals

According to this quote on Agriprocessors dated July 27 from Postville, Iowa "executives ... said the company had contracted with an outside firm, the Jacobson Staffing Company, to handle its hiring, and new safety officers, including one former federal work safety inspector".

But what is going on here?

http://iowaindependent.com/2520/agripro ... ys-a-price

One of the firms being utilized by Jacobson is Bravo Labor Agency in McAllen, Texas. Although the company’s Web site has been taken off-line, a May 30 cached version of the page indicates that the firm began in 1987. [b]One of the specialties highlighted by the firm is its ability to “lower overhead, with inexpensive labor from South Texas and Mexico.â€

millere: Hey, good find. I'm going to post the entire article as there are some lower-level details about what actually goes on there, some good history about local law enforcement, etc. and a blog post by a member of the Rubashkin family. Overall, I think it's a good addition to the compendium of information about the Postville raid. Article below:


Agriprocessors Imports Homeless Workers and Postville Pays a Price

By Lynda Waddington 6/25/08 9:25 AM

People in the northeastern Iowa town of Postville have spent the past two decades learning how to thrive despite a wealth of differences. Between the town’s longtime residents, the influx of Hasidic Jews who arrived in the late 1980s to operate a kosher slaughterhouse, and the recently arrived Central American and Mexican migrants, the town of 2,500 had the ethnic mix of a much larger city. Just a few weeks ago many would have said that the town had worked through the worst of its growing pains to settle into a primarily quiet and productive routine.

Before the nation’s largest single-site immigration raid came crashing down upon Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant, and swept away nearly half of the company’s workforce and 18 percent of the population, life was different in Postville. Now the town’s elected officials and residents scramble as they try to balance the needs of the town with those of their largest employer.
Girls sit in front of a Hispanic restaurant in Postville Three girls relax on the steps in front of a restaurant in Postville. Paul Rael, director of the Hispanic Ministry at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church, says newcomers to the community, many without means to care for themselves, are putting added strain on the church’s outreach effort. Church resources were already stretched thin as parishioners attempted to help members of the Hispanic community following the May 12 immigration raid.

“I know there are concerns around town about the rebuilding effort following the May 12 raid of Agriprocessors,â€

It is clear by the nature of the labor violations, the frequency of the same, etc that this is a company that has demonstrated a clear inability to operate within the bounds of many laws. No city in America needs a business like this one - not one. If you can't do business legally, you should have no expectation to remain in business at all.

Aren't we seeing a situation where one labor outsourcer utilizes another outsourcer in order to "pass the buck"?

Exactly......everyone plays stupid and passes the buck on. Same situation with that staffing agency that supplied employees for O'Hare....wouldn't surprise me one bit if it wasn't the same way Elvira got on at O'Hare.

Both are to obey the laws

Originally Posted by PhredE

It is clear by the nature of the labor violations, the frequency of the same, etc that this is a company that has demonstrated a clear inability to operate within the bounds of many laws. No city in America needs a business like this one - not one. If you can't do business legally, you should have no expectation to remain in business at all.

The article was a slick, professional hatchet "job" meant to make poor working class Americans look like "drunks" and illegal Mexican laborers look like tight-knit "credit-to-the-community" families. The purpose of this article is to clear the way for more illegal Mexicans who will benefit by experimentation from a system of loopholes driven more underground and with more secretative measures: notice how the Riobravo temp agency has been advised to take its website down.

Originally Posted by millere

Originally Posted by PhredE

It is clear by the nature of the labor violations, the frequency of the same, etc that this is a company that has demonstrated a clear inability to operate within the bounds of many laws. No city in America needs a business like this one - not one. If you can't do business legally, you should have no expectation to remain in business at all.

The article was a slick, professional hatchet "job" meant to make poor working class Americans look like "drunks" and illegal Mexican laborers look like tight-knit "credit-to-the-community" families. The purpose of this article is to clear the way for more illegal Mexicans who will benefit by experimentation from a system of loopholes driven more underground and with more secretative measures: notice how the Riobravo temp agency has been advised to take its website down.

Yep, yep. Those details I focus on a LOT. 'Cover thy tracks'.
Ah, but too late. WE KNOW...

Say, isn't this the way WALMART got slapped, for using illegal labor that was handled by outside subcontractors a few years ago. This is business as usual, and probably has been going since the amnesty of 1986.

I had a good chuckle when I read the churches are complaining about the influx of "outsiders" using up their limited resources. This should give them a clue as to how US citizens feel about IA's invading our country and using our limited resources and bringing with them their criminal element overwhelming police and jail budgets,closing hospitals,over crowding schools and using our welfare system.

[quote="millere"]
One of the firms being utilized by Jacobson is Bravo Labor Agency in McAllen, Texas. Although the company’s Web site has been taken off-line, a May 30 cached version of the page indicates that the firm began in 1987. [b]One of the specialties highlighted by the firm is its ability to “lower overhead, with inexpensive labor from South Texas and Mexico.â€