Iowa meat packing company.. Total slime.

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2008/5/14

Iowa meat packing company.. Total slime.

@ 12:33 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

Oh, it just keeps gettig better. These people, if even a tenth of the allegations are correct, are TOTAL SCUM. Short take: The employees, many of which are illegals and the company knew it, try to form a union. The company says, "Hey, they're illegals, they can't vote for a union." The court says, "Not so." The company fires all those illegals voting for the union.

Union busting takes a new low.

The owners of the Postville meatpacking plant where 390 workers were arrested Monday admitted in court last year that many of the workers in its New York distribution center were in the United States illegally.

That admission is getting new attention in the wake of the raid this week that rounded up 40 percent of the Iowa plant's 968 workers.

Agriprocessors Inc. made the statement about its New York workers in an effort to block those workers from joining a union.

The company contended that many of the employees at the Brooklyn distribution center had improperly voted in favor of union representation and were not protected by the National Labor Relations Act because they were undocumented immigrants.

The ruling added, "While undocumented aliens may face penalties for violating immigration laws, they receive the same wages and benefits as legal workers, face the same working conditions, answer to the same supervisors and possess the same skills and duties."

Court records indicate that after the workers voted in 2005 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Agriprocessors put the Social Security numbers of all voting employees into a federal database and discovered that most of the Social Security numbers were either nonexistent or belonged to other people.

The company then fired the workers and sought to invalidate their vote to join the union. An administrative law judge rejected the company's arguments.