Jewish owned meatpacking plant "a great place to work" if you don't mind child labor

This is the same plant in Postville, Iowa that was the site of the largest immigration raid in US history, and it looks as if the legal gears are finally turning. This is also an interesting story as you have an Orthodox (Hasidic) Jewish owned and operated kosher meat plant employing undocumented and underage Guatemalan and Mexican immigrants in a Midwest meatpacking town with a Rabbinic seal of ethical approval. Wow, and who says that globalisation isn't working? For an insider's look at this issue from a worker's perspective, check out this piece written by Erik Camayd-Freixas who interviewed many immigrants involved in the raid.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/14/opinion/14ed-camayd.pdf
And for a good historical and social look at this town and plant, check out this aricle with author Stephen G. Bloom, who wrote Postville: A Clash of Culture in Americas Heartland
http://www.vosizneias.com/16089/2008/05/18/postville-ia-author-of-famed-book-on-...

From the NYT article:
"The Iowa attorney general on Tuesday brought an array of criminal charges for child labor violations against the owners and top managers of a meatpacking plant where nearly 400 workers were detained in a May immigration raid.

The state charges were the first to be brought against owners and senior managers at the plant, Agriprocessors, since the May 12 raid. Federal prosecutors convicted nearly 300 workers, most of them illegal immigrants from Guatemala, on document fraud charges, with the majority sentenced to five months in prison. Advocates for immigrants had criticized federal prosecutors for punishing the workers but not the managers.

In all, 9,311 criminal misdemeanor charges involving 32 under-age workers were filed against the company, Agriprocessors Inc., and its owner, Aaron Rubashkin, and his son Sholom, who was the top manager of the packing plant in Postville, Iowa...The two-page affidavit claims that Aaron and Sholom Rubashkin were “frequently present” in the slaughterhouse where under-age employees were working, and that they “possessed shared knowledge that Agriprocessors employed undocumented aliens” and that “many of those workers were minors.”

The complaint also charges that under-age workers were not paid for all the overtime they worked and were forced to work before 7 a.m. and after 7 p.m., a violation of child labor laws. Agriprocessors managers “participated in efforts to conceal children when federal and state labor department officials inspected the plant,” the complaint says." (Follow link for full article)

More background on the story, and battles with PETA, can be read right here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/us/05immig.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/us/23kosher.html
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/14/opinion/14ed-camayd.pdf