Children become orphans as feds bust union drive
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Author: John Wojcik
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/26/08 10:37



Questions: Where in this world do tax dollars pay government agents to park near preschool centers and watch parents drop off or pick up their babies?

In what type of land do government agents stalk busloads of 5-year-old school children and the staff who teach them?

Where do government agents smash in a front door and tear a nursing infant from the arms of her mother?

Answer: In Postville, Iowa, where employers want to stop a union organizing drive at Agriprocessors Inc., the nation’s biggest kosher beef slaughtering plant.

The largest single immigration raid in history at that plant, May 12, tore families apart and turned children with loving parents into orphans, immigrant rights and labor activists testified to Congress on May 20.

The military-style commando raid by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) stopped a union organizing drive at the plant dead in its tracks, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers, the union spearheading the drive.

“This raid and abusive detention signifies union busting,â€