Posted on 08/02/2008 5:30:02 AM PDT by Quaker
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), a union that endorses Barack Obama in his 2008 Presidential candidacy, has negotiated with Tyson Foods to recognize Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr instead of the traditional American Labor Day Holiday. Employees are not happy with this stunt.
Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
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We are getting close to having a cultural revolt in this country. European weanies already gave in to these demands, but Americans will not stand for this.
Another WTF?? moment
How bizarre.
Why doesn’t Tyson Foods move its entire operation to the middle east and be done with it?
Between this BS and Tyson Foods’ overt pandering on behalf of the illegals it hires, it is pretty much an irrefutable fact that this company has no loyalty to the USA anymore. I haven’t been buying their branded food for awhile now. I hope more people do the same.
I also boycott anything made by Tyson.
A Union opposing “Labor Day”?
Those employees should hope they dont get “sick” on Labor day weekend
And host a pork chop barbeque on their muslim holiday
Really show them; spend Eid al-Fitr eating ham sandwiches and drinking beer.
Time for an election to decertify the union!
I guess I'd be the only one in the office that day, then.
Even better, hold the company picnic at noon, two weeks before Eid al-Fitr. That way it will be during Ramadan (the Muslim month of fasting). Serve beer and barbequed pig.
About a year ago I read about a Tyson plant in Alabama, staffed with illegals, that had a hepititus outbreak.
I have boycotted Tyson for a while. Guess I’ll continue to do so.
Well, you wouldn’t expect them to give up MLK day, do you?
Don’t have the link to the article (read it at work) but a report I read yesterday said that the union workforce at this plan is about 1200 persons. 700 are Somalis.
The union negotiators had initially asked for Eid al Fitar (post-Ramadan feast day) as an additional paid holiday. Tyson’s would only pay for 8 holidays (regular number of Federal holidays). Tyson said pick and they picked. So a vote was taken and, not surprisingly, Eid al Fitar won out over Labor Day. The report was unclear if the 500 non-Muslim union employees would get the option of taking one or the other with pay. However, it is unlikely. I assume you need the whole union workforce (1200) to be there to run the place, so having 7/12ths there on Labor Day or 5/12ths there on Eid al Fitar isn’t going to work. By allowing them a choice, Tyson’s would lose two production days vice one.
So the 500 non-Muslim union employees are screwed. (I’d would of said 500 Americans but heck, most of the 500 could be from Central America, for all I know.)
The news article said that the non-union employees at the plant will continue to get Labor Day off with pay. Report didn’t mention how many non-union employees there are. My guess is that they are management and administrative staff and their number is small enough that they can off for the day without closing the plant down.
It will be interesting to see if the non-Muslims must also fast during the daytime during the month of Ramadan as a gesture of cultural-sensitivity to the Somalis.
Then we’ll know whether or not this is just a local labor adjustment or the first step in something else.
union idiots.
Labor day was started as a UNION BACKED HOLIDAY.
only a illiterate would have done this.
We're bringing democracy to the middle east. Look what democracy did in the last Gaza elections. When you start with a base of fanatics who support terrorism, that's what you get when they vote. If you had democracy in Saudi Arabia, how do you think all the Wahabbis would vote?
So, when you hire 700 moslems to work at your plant, don't be surprised when they vote this way. That's what moslems do.
You ain't seen nothing yet. When are grandchildren are in charge, moslems will run several european countries.
or “our” for that matter
This is a joke right? Scrappleface?
Just gain control of the mechanism, then change all of the rules to prevent losing control while imposing your agenda on the people one step at a time. Start in the public schools so that victory will be grounded in the rising generations. When "they" complain, back off, make a concession or two, let things cool down, then start again. When you are powerful enough, you'll ignore them. Rather than all at once, the professional ruling class will turn us from freemen into slaves one vote at a time. Everything above board, everything legal.
Already happening in Europe and Canada...and here, too.
Agree. See post 22.
I stopped buying Tyson years ago because of their connection to the Clintons. A nation-wide boycott should be in place, but most Americans will never hear about this.
Do these morons even know that the date of Eid al-Fitr changes every year?Because Ramadan moves forward each year, they will be having the holiday at different times each year. Each successive year, the starting date of Ramadan moves forward approximately 11 days. At some point, they’ll be having this holiday during the winter. Hope they enjoy it.
Sent article to everyone on my email list with a request to boycott which I have been doing for last 2 years. Also printed up flyers which are going on every car in the parking lot of my grocery store today. Talked with manager of my grocery store and asked them not to stock Tyson products and reasons why. He said he didn’t make decisions about what was stocked in his store but would pass my suggestion along. Right!
don’t forget, we got 2 more coming 1 if McNut dies in office and 1 for kennedy when he goes, nat’l drunk driving day, it will be know as.
I think I will join you.
-PJ
I’m not too far up the road from Tyson but I can guarantee they could have added a holiday much cheaper than extracting one. This will cost them dearly.
you describe the Ratchet Effect exactly.
We just need to call them on this BS and show their stupidity.
Seriously, when a AMERICAN UNION voluntarily cancels a UNION FOUGHT AND EARNED HOLIDAY, then the unions are truly dead and stupid.
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