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Plant Drops Labor Day For Muslim Holiday
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Some workers at a local plant will no longer to be able to take their Labor Day holiday because of religious reasons.
Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr. [snip]
Former employee and Shelbyville resident Anthony Proctor said he thinks what’s happening is wrong.
He said he helped build a special Muslim prayer room that’s located inside the plant and that no other Tyson facility has been that accommodating for any other religion.”If we want to go pray, we don’t have one for Christians,” he said.
This pertains only to the unionized workers at this plant. You know what that suggests for the dues checkoffs. One more reason to can unions and socialist policies.
Maybe the whole country should celebrate this day the same way they do in Iraq and Somalia.
Archived in: Employment, Religion, UnionsAugust 4, 2008 at 9:09 am | Trackback
4 comments
This isn’t even warm frog water. It’s boiling, and no doubt these union clods will jump right in. Whenever I see a union sticker on a pickup, I see a ball and chain.
If you keep up with the comments in the various net news reports and blogs, this is not going over very well with the “bible-totin’, gun-clutchin’ rednecks” from mid-America. General trend I see is that Tysom better start making its chicken halal, since no one else is going to buy it.
This is a public relations nightmare for Tyson. Appease 250 mooslems, watch your whole company profit margin tank.
Attaboy, Union!!!
Codekey, wasn’t Tyson involved in some questionable deal with the Clintons?
Hillary parlayed $1000 into +/- $100,000 playing the futures market. Only took her a few months. This market is where experts loose their shirts, but Hill, a rank amateur, profitted well. Everyone caimed beginners luck. And they called Gotti the “Teflon Don”.