http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081206/ap_on_re_us/slaughterhouse_economics

 Local News Education Religion Politics Crimes and Trials  Raids could force meatpackers to raise worker  Aug. 13, 2008 file photo, is the Agriprocessors kosher meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. … DES MOINES, Iowa – The kosher slaughterhouse whose work force was depleted by a mass immigration raid in May has struggled to remain open because of a problem that few companies in this economy have: It can't find enough workers.

Since 389 of its 1,000 employees were arrested in the immigration raid, Agriprocessors Inc. has tried multiple recruitment tactics to replenish staff at its plant in Postville. It hired employment firms, recruited homeless people from Texas and even brought in workers from the tiny island nation of Palau.

But the plant hasn't been able to bring its staffing to more than half of pre-raid levels, causing Agriprocessors to cut its production drastically and then suspend it completely. After filing for bankruptcy protection, the company last week managed to restart its poultry line with a skeleton crew.

I've always found it unbelievable that with the unemployment numbers rising that a company such as this would not be able to find workers.  However, the sad answer to the problem is that many "American" workers will not take what they consider menial jobs.  They would rather take their hand-out from the government called Unemployment Compensation.     The new Administration wants to create jobs by putting people to work on repairing our infrastructure, like roads, bridges, etc.  It should be interesting to see if they are really able to get certain people who are out of work to take those kinds of jobs.