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Decorah pastor discusses Postville on Radio Australia

By Lynda Waddington 12/29/08

Reverend Carol Kress from the First united Methodist Church in Decorah was a featured guest on Radio Australia last week. She was called upon to discuss the financial difficulties faced by immigrant workers from Palau who sought employment at Agriprocessors, an embattled kosher meatpacking plant in Postville.
Kress described what the roughly 160 Palauns were promised [...]

Palauan Minister: Postville workers are benefit to Palau’s economy

By Lynda Waddington 10/7/08

Temmy Shmull, the Republic of Palau’s minister of state, is in favor of sending an additional 150 of his countrymen to work at Agriprocessors in Postville, but says the final decision has yet to be made.
Schmull, who represented the country’s outgoing president at the United Nations in New York, took an alternative path back to [...]

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