This is good to see. Months after a sweep of a kosher meat packing plant grabbed 400 immigrants and held them at the county fair grounds for processing news begins to seep out about the working conditions at the plant. Now, with plenty of behind-the-scenes work, I’ll bet over 1,000 have showed up to make sure the workers aren’t just shuffled back home in silence so the same ugly cycle can begin all over again.

About 1,000 people, including Hispanic immigrants, Catholic clergy members, rabbis and activists, marched through the center of this farm town on Sunday and held a rally at the entrance to a kosher meatpacking plant that was raided in May by immigration authorities.

The march was called to protest working conditions in the plant, owned by Agriprocessors Inc., and to call for Congressional legislation to give legal status to illegal immigrants. The four rabbis, from Minnesota and Wisconsin, attended the march to publicize proposals to revise kosher food certification to include standards of corporate ethics and treatment of workers.

Labor Protest

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