Posted on 08/03/2008 10:59:19 AM PDT by MississippiMan
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - 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 given the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr as a holiday...
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MM
The list of things to not buy continues to grow.
Shortage of Illegal Mexicans?
I’m boycotting them.
Remember Tyson makes all meat products, not just chicken, for most fast food outlets ... and for most frozen food meat products. They are a huge company.
Boycott
Contact Information
Mail:
Tyson Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 2020
Springdale, AR 72764-6999
Telephone: 1-800-643-3410
Consumer Relations CP631
2210 West Oaklawn Drive
Springdale, AR 72764-6999
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I hope the non-muslims stage a “Sick In” on Labor Day. I would. Well, maybe I wouldn’t in this economy. Labor jobs are hard to find in some areas.
That’s OK, I’ve been boycotting them too, ever since they were a key factor in puting Bill Clinton in the White House.
But you are right, it isn’t easy to boycott them.
Like mold after a flood, they can be found in almost every thing. Even some of the other brand names use tyson’s meats as a component part, so you gotta read the labels closely.
Tyson supported BJ Clinton, so no surpise that the company would be doing “progressive” things:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/fm.clinton/
“In 1974 as well as 1992, candidate Clinton has actually embraced powerful corporate interests and much of their agenda despite his rhetoric against them. When Clinton ran for Congress in 1974, the largest employer in the Third District of Arkansas was Tyson Foods, based in Springdale, which was well on its way to becoming the nation’s largest poultry producer. In 1995, Tyson Foods ranked “110th on the Fortune 500 list, and sold 6,000 products in 57 countries, from fresh chickens to taco fillings,” according to an August 1994 company profile in The New York Times.
“The chairman, Don Tyson, is a colorful figure who in the late 1970s designed his corporate office as a replica of the Oval Office in the White House, with doorknobs shaped like chicken eggs. Tyson was estimated to be worth $800 million. He supported Clinton in the 1974 race, and according to author David Maraniss, the Tyson family donated a campaign telephone bank which was operated from an apartment near the University of Arkansas, although it should be noted that no such “in-kind” contribution was reported by the campaign to the Federal Election Commission. Clinton never talked much about the company itself publicly, but instead spoke empathetically about the plight of chicken farmers.
“The Tyson-Clinton relationship continued in Washington, of course, and it grew out of a special culture.
Why isn’t the ACLU all over this?
If you like the smell of turkey on thanksgiving, and Christmas trees on Christmas, you will love EID. It smells to high heaven in the thing the Muslims love most, death.
Yes, Islam is a death cult. And they actually look forward and celebrate the day the world is turned into a slaughterhouse. The rotting body parts represent your future in their eyes.
Furthermore, you know why Muslims want Sharia Law for them? Because under Sharia Law, no infidel may testify against a Muslim. With Sharia Law, they can kill and rape to their hearts content, as long as it is you and your family they do it to.
We need to defeat Islam, not sleep with it. It is a STD.
Likely not actually. More likely black Muslim though given the location {West Tennessee near Memphis}.
Trading a Marxist inspired holiday for a pedophile prophet inspired holiday.
Half dozen of one and six of the other, I guess.
Let Dhimmi Tyson know how you feel.
1-800-643-3410
Tyson has also installed Muslim prayer rooms at the Shelbyville plant. “
All of this tells me that we have weeeeey too many Muzzies inside the borders.
From chicken to fish..Tyson does it all. They have been a bad actor in this immigration thing for years.
They are hauling in Somali’s from big cities to work in these small town’s on a “company store” basis. They supposedly are legal refugees..they have to find some down and out people so they can pay low wages.
It is hard to avoid them at the grocery store, since they pack for others and do fresh and frozen. Look for the small print. I’ve been avoiding them for years.
You can’t blame legal workers for asking for what they want to work these jobs..if a majority are muslim..well they have the right to negotiate for any holiday they want.
Duplicate thread here (but thanks for posting this again)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623416/posts
Tyson Foods, the company that got busted for hiring illegals and now this....
who’s running that company...
Larry, Moe & Curley? LMAO
Exactly!
Just a very few years ago, Tyson's in Shub'vull had an enormous number of illegal Mexican employees.
Since the INS has begun busting employers of illegals, they must have changed.
At the very most they should offer the Muslims the option to either take Labor Day or EID. That might be somewhat reasonable. But to do away with Labor Day, a national holiday, is unacceptable. And no prayer rooms.
Can they do that? Labor day is a federal holiday but the one they have swaped for is a religious holiday?
According to Islamic law, they need also to have prayers said on the processing line as the chickens throats are slashed and they choke to death on their own blood.
EID is a national holiday too. The nation is Islam and Mecca is its capital.
They walk among the kufir but pledge allegiance to a foreign theocratic power.
Guess there is another company on my “don’t buy” list. My kid enjoys their chicken bites...too bad.
Slowly they creep....
This is one time I will encourage all my friends to not buy Tyson anything.
There has to be a limit to what we will put up with.
Tyson sellout!
Maybe we can make a deal with the Mexicans.
Most Muslims in the meat packing industry are from northeastern and central Africa, where ethnic genocide and starvation are all too common.
Most have entered the USA on some kind of compassionate visa.
A majority of the meat workers are women, possibly because many African Muslim males feel that such work is humiliating.
In many of Africa’s poorest countries, it is quite common for women to do most of the manual labor.
If you shop at Wally World even their packaged raw beef is from Tyson. I saw them taking it out of the boxes one night. Roast=Tyson Foods etc.
Well, I have bought Tyson products many times, but will henceforth look to alternatives. I’m sure there are many Moslims about to take my place.
I see. Are these muslims in the meat industry very dark black people with the lines accross their foreheads?
I must confess to being torn on this one. Tysons (big Clinton supporters) are dissing Big Labor by killing off Labor Day as a holiday, and substituting Muzzie Day. On some levels this is a real laugher.
And not that I need a reason to boycott Tyson, but I guess in the end I’d favor our own misguided unionists over Muslim fifth columnists. And another thing - I don’t want the Muslim fifth columnists working around my damned food!
Are you talking about Mooselimbs or the Goa'uld?
I have no idea.
Strict Muslim women usually wear a head covering, so their foreheads are concealed.
In Minnesota, female Sudanese meat packers have sued to overturn the state and federal safety laws that pertain to loose fitting clothing that might catch in machinery.
The Sudanese women, as I recall, have also refused to wear zip up coveralls, because they resemble pants, which is forbidden by their religion.
Our family has studiously avoided buying Tyson products for many years - since I first learned they were linked to the Clintonistas.
Tyson just lost another customer.
THat is why they are poor contries, the Muslim men are lazy!
Your post made me think of something: I assume Tyson also allows them to decide what work they will and will not do. For example, is this a chicken-only plant, or does it deal with pork?
MM (in TX)
I recently learned that the holiday doesn't even start on the same day throughout the Muslim world.
Even after I read all the comments, and the original article, I couldn’t quite get it through my head that this wasn’t an Onion piece or equivalent. Simply astounding.
My head will explode the day that a foreign country bends over backwards to provide American customs/holidays to Americans in their lands. For some reason, I don’t see it happening. Funny how its been a one way street for about 40-50 years now.
I made that choice, starting yesterday. I’d quit if I worked there.
Tyson also supplies chickens to fast food places like Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Belll, Wendy’s, etc
Listen to Terry Anderson tonight...
“If You Ain’t Mad, You Ain’t Payin’ Attention!”
9-10 PM PDT...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056009/posts
A few thoughts on that...
Tyson basically favored the 600+ (close to 700 stated in article) Islamic workers over the 500+ non-Islamic ones out of 1,200 workers. Not a real big difference in the numbers of each group. So why take away one group’s privilege to give another group their privilege?
The slightly fewer non-Islamic workers who, until now, have taken their traditional Labor Day holiday, a day which is normally spent with family and friends, are being forced to change from taking their holiday on September 1st, to taking their holiday on Eid al-Fitr. According to the Islamic religious calendar, this happens to fall on October 1st this year... about a month after everyone else they know has had their Labor Day holiday. Is that fair?
We are in a nation that has agreed-on official holidays. One of the reasons for this, is so that the type of thing we see happening here doesn’t start to happen. Once we start making exceptions for one group, another group wants preferential treatment too. It doesn’t take much time for chaos to set in, because everyone wants to have things their own way.
Those workers knew about the holiday schedule when they signed-on to work at Tyson Foods. If management wants to accommodate them in the different holiday, that is great. But the other workers do not need to suffer in losing their traditional holiday because of management’s decision to do that.
I think it is great that they are wanting to help Islamic workers be with their families on a holiday that is very important to them. However, I don’t agree with taking away the Labor Day holiday from those non-Islamic workers who want to be with their families and friends.
If they really are wanting to accommodate everyone, why didn’t they work the shifts out so that the non-Islamic workers could take Labor Day, like just about every other American, and the minority group, who happens to have marginally greater numbers at that one plant, could take their holiday?
I propose that they rearrange the shifts on those two holidays to accommodate the separate workers’ holiday choices.
They also created two prayer rooms for the Muslim workers. They may be doing this under the umbrella of the Tyson Core Values. One of the statements is that Tyson Foods strives to be “faith-friendly,” which is great in and of itself. How far is Tyson willing to go to be “faith-friendly?” If they are faith-friendly, shouldn’t they be fair and treat all faiths similarly?
To put this in perspective, we are talking about nearly 700 people meeting together in two rooms, 350 per room, to say their prayers. Most churches around these parts run 150 to maybe close to 1,000, if they are larger. We do have a few really large churches in the area. So we are talking about Tyson Foods building, or setting aside, two large rooms, which are big enough to handle enough people to fill most churches. Sounds like Tyson is building Islamic churches to me.
I haven’t heard of Tyson Foods creating places of prayer for the high percentage of Christian workers that have been working at various Tyson facilities all these years. What’s up with that? And are they now planning on creating places of worship for every religion represented at Tyson Foods facilities? How about at Tyson Corporate in Springdale, Arkansas?
Shouldn’t they be fair and accommodating to every religious group represented at Tyson Foods, or is it just the Islamic worshippers who get preferential treatment? Why aren’t they building chapels or rooms for the Christians, and for the Jewish worshippers, and Catholics, and Seventh-Day Adventists, and Satanists, and so on... ?
Also, if Tyson Foods wants to go down the slippery slope of providing rooms for religious activities at their various facilities, that is their business, but it is not a cost-effective use of investors’ funds to build rooms for every religious group present.
So, not to just harp on a problem, I also propose a solution:
There should be one multi-purpose, religious room built at each Tyson facility (including Tyson Corporate), which is large enough to handle either half their work force at that facility, or at least large enough to handle the largest religious group present.
They should also hire one or more full-time, heavily-armed security officer(s), who is pro-religion, and who is not biased against any religious preference. To maximize value for their shareholders, and help increase employee efficiency by providing for these religious activities, this person should also be highly skilled at leading each religious group in their prescribed religious activities. This person should also be highly skilled at event scheduling, facilities management, counseling, metaphysical and spiritual issues, conflict resolution, diplomacy, politics, riot control, hand-to-hand combat, spiritual warfare, detection and deactivation of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, and should also be excellent at telling non-offensive, politically-correct (and religiously-correct!) jokes.
“The “festival” of Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan is a ten day festival celebrating the day the Muslims will kill every Jew on the planet, and enslave mankind.”
Seriously? I googled it, but couldn’t find any real reference to what they were celebrating, just how they celebrated it. Got any links?
No, just been to Jordan during Ramadan and Eid.
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