Thread: Child Labor Violations Alleged Against Agriprocessors

Child Labor Violations Alleged Against Agriprocessors
Labor Officials: 57 Cases Uncovered

POSTED: 3:02 pm CDT August 5, 2008
UPDATED: 4:06 pm CDT August 5, 2008


The Iowa Labor Commissioner's Office announced Tuesday that it has uncovered dozens of child labor violations at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville.

Labor officials said their investigation, which spanned several months, had uncovered 57 cases of child labor law violations.

The types of violations included minors working in prohibited occupations, exceeding allowable hours to work youth and working with prohibited tools

Iowa Labor Commissioner Dave Neil said the investigation brings to light egregious violations of virtually every aspect of the state's child labor laws.

The Attorney General's Office said it could not comment on what penalties are possible. State officials declined to release details on how many children may be involved or their ages.

About 400 workers were arrested during an immigration raid at the plant in May.

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I think this business is going down. They just keep coming up with more.

Most of the kids in some of the countries around the world go to work rather than go to school. I remember a 5-year-old manning a roadside veggie stand in Turkey. But hiring these kids is the company's fault when they know better. Hang those in charge of the company by their thumbs.

What is so incredible is that these persons or corporations in charge always comment " I or we did not know they were ILLEGALS" And they get away with it.

If I get pulled over for speeding I am going to try that line!!!!!....Think I would get away with that????

Originally Posted by Gogo

I think this business is going down. They just keep coming up with more.

Yep. I said in another thread on the subject, that basically, no town in the country - no matter how small or how poor - needs this kind of company.
If their greed is so boundless and void of morals, then they really shouldn't be in business at all.

Where's the child neglect and abuse charges against the parents? The truancy related charges?

They are just as culpable in this as the plant is.....even moreso because they are the ones who sent them there to work in the first place and allowed the abuse of their own children.

It's about time all of these alleged parents start finding out what happens, in this country, to those whom abuse and exploit their children.

This was an open secret, in the schools, churches and all around the area.
Shame on all of them.