Worker Rights
Labor Day reflections: Lessons of Postville
During the summer of 2008, state labor officials in Iowa released the results of an investigation of the kosher meatpacking giant, Agriprocessors, in the small town of Postville, where authorities determined that the slaughterhouse illegally employed 57 minors, aged 14 to 17, in sweatshop-working conditions rife with health and safety violations.


