Rubashkin
Rubashkin starts and defends ‘grassroots’ blog
A pro-Agriprocessors blog launched “by people who live and work in Postville” has been outed by Nigel Duara of the Associated Press as being at least partly run by Getzel Rubashkin, a member of the family who owns the kosher meatpacking plant. Rubashkin has accused Duara of cherry picking information from their conversation, a move [...]
New York attorney is new CEO at Agriprocessors
After nearly four months of searching, the Postville meatpacking plant that was the site of a massive May immigration raid has named a new chief executive officer.
‘Baloney!’ says Agriprocessors owner of Iowa charges
Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, family patriarch and owner of Agriprocessors, Inc., had an angry reaction to the court documents filed by the Iowa Attorney General that linked him, his company, his son and three human resource employees to more than 9,000 counts of believed child labor law violations.
“Baloney!” he exclaimed.
He went on to tell The Jewish [...]
Orthodox Union to Agriprocessors: Hire new management or lose certification
Updated 9/10/2008 @ 10 a.m.
“Within the coming days, or lets say a week or two, we will suspend our supervision unless there’s new management in place,” Rabbi Menachem Genack, the head of kosher supervision for the Orthodox Union, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency this afternoon.
Agriprocessors charged with over 9,000 child labor law violations
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has filed a criminal complaint and affidavit today in Allamakee County District Court listing more than 9,000 alleged violations of Iowa child labor laws at Agriprocessors in Postville.
Rotating door at Agriprocessors keeps spinning
This is the song that never ends,
As it goes on and on my friend.
Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because…
Both sides of immigration debate agree: employers should be held accountable
Anyone driving on Lawler Street in downtown Postville Sunday might have found it difficult to find a common thread between the two groups shouting phrases about immigration from opposite sides of the street. Yet, members of the immigration debate who hold opposing viewpoints on many of the difficult nuances of the debate do hold common ground: Employers should not be given a free pass.
Misconduct by Agriprocessors’ PR Firm Has Rabbi Considering Legal Options
Answering media inquiries and consulting with an attorney wasn’t exactly how Rabbi Morris Allen wanted to spend his vacation. When he learned, however, that someone associated with a New York-based public relations firm hired by Agriprocessors was impersonating him online, he knew his vacation plans were subject to change.
Uri L’Tzedek Ends Rubashkin Product Boycott
A grassroots Jewish social justice organization that called for a consumer boycott of all products manufactured under the Rubashkin label in May announced this morning that it no longer supports such restrictions.
While citing approval for the success of the six-week boycott, Uri L’Tzedek founder and co-director Shmuly Yanklowitz stated that the group remains “deeply committed [...]
Two Agriprocessors Officials Indicted for Encouraging Illegal Immigration
A Third Supervisor at Postville Plant Remains At Large
While two supervisors from Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, were arrested this week in connection with a May 12 immigration raid at the plant and appeared in federal court, a third remains on the run.
As originally reported by Iowa Independent, Hosam Amara is believed to [...]