DES MOINES, Iowa AP – A kosher meatpacking company accused of violating Iowa child labor laws denied knowingly hiring any minors and said Wednesday that the government’s allegations are “inflammatory.”
State officials said Tuesday that they had uncovered “egregious” violations involving 57 children, ages 14 to 17, who worked at Agriprocessors Inc.’s Postville plant, the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. The allegations come on the heels of a May raid of the plant by federal immigration officials who arrested a record 389 illegal immigrants.
