Posted on 08/04/2008 10:32:24 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Well, folks, here it is--the beginning (or maybe the middle) of the end of America as we know it. Tyson Foods is now ending employees' paid day off for Labor Day and, instead, giving 'em the paid day off for the Muslim festival, Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. It is the most important holiday in Islam.
It will be interesting to see how Tyson calculates which day it is, since Muslims are never really sure on which day or two it falls until right before--and since Shi'ites and Sunnis frequently feud about when it falls.
Since I keep kosher, I don't eat Tyson Foods products anyway, but I call on you my readers to boycott the company. It's absurd to replace labor day with the holiday of those bent on our destruction. Any company that does that doesn't deserve your business. (It, frankly, doesn't deserve your business even without this, because as I've noted on this site, Tyson Foods employs illegal aliens and trades with Iran, helping sustain the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime.)
Tyson Foods . . . the Official Olympic Sponsor of IslamoFascism:
Workers at Tyson Foods' poultry processing plant in Shelbyville [Tennessee] 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.
A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility "implements a new holiday to accommodate the ... Muslim workers at the plant."
The RWDSU stated that "the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan."
(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...
A Communist holiday or a Moslem one ... choices, choices ...
Is there any way to find out just how many muslims Tyson employs? And how many of other religions/ethnicities? Do they even keep tabs on that sort of thing?
Boycott Tyson foods. Stop the spread of Satan worship in this country.
In one of the many articles about this, the ratio was stated as 700 (mostly Somali) muslims in a workforce of 1200.
Use the Search button and search on Tyson....
This has got to be the 10th article posting of the same information.
do they work in america? good lord that’s a lot. and enough of a reason for me to stop buying their products. although i am not sure i really have been.
Done.
And I’ll let the company know why too.
The floating holiday took the place of Good Friday. Now, nobody's feelings get hurt. If you want Good Friday off, take it. You prefer Kwanzaa ... good for you. If Talk Like a Pirate Day is your cup of tea ... no problem.
Seems to me Tyson management could have solved the problem without caving in like they did.
I bet all the Liberal Free Trade Globalists are happy with this development. I am sure they will have some strange rationalization for it...”How its good for America not to hire Americans...we must diversify....blah blah blah”
Well, let Tyson figure out how they are going to give off for a holiday no one seems to agree on when the holiday actually is. Tyson will pee more money away trying to figure that out
Ah the joys of Liberal Free Trade Globalism....
I have always purchased Tyson chicken products, but no more. If Tyson isn’t careful (and, apparently, they aren’t!) they will soon be the sole American packager of halal chicken!
....I’d think that the Unions nation wide would be raising hell about this...or don’t they care about America anymore either?
I only by chicken from Millers (Amish group). It cost a little more but I am glad to give them my money.
WHAT THE F-CK?
How is labor day a communist holiday? I’ve never understood it as such. Labor Day to me seemed to celebrate the worker. We have the most productive workforce in the world. Shouldn’t that be celebrated?
All this shows is that Tyson is too cheap to pay for two holidays.
I don’t see what the big deal is. The union is supposed to represent the workers. Management negotiates with the union.
A floating holiday could accomodate everyone a little better, but the nature of the work might make that impractical.
Done with Tyson.
Exploding chicken, anyone?
Why should they? THey are a business not your uncle sugar? They pay people to work, not to not work.
What it shows is that they are kow-towing to muslim demands for being off on their holy days. They can do it if they want to, but it’s going to turn a bunch of people (ie customers) off by doing it. Because it’s a bigger issue than just having a muslim holy day off. It is another small incremental step towards increasing islam’s power in this country.
And Tyson gave them this little step when it didn’t have to. That’s why I’m done with them. Not because they have the right to do what they want, but because they did what they want and made the wrong decision, in the big picture view of things.
[We have been boycotting Tyson for years already.]
A Tyson employee manageed to get a job at a competitor in Nebraska. They purposely introduced salmonella into the hamburger and caused the company to lose so much money, they had to either go bankrupt or sell.
They sold.
Guess who bought them?
CORRECT, YOU WIN THE KEWPIE DOLL!
IT WAS TYSON!
You mixing up “May Day” with “Labor Day”? Or is there an origin of Labor Day that is communist I am not aware of?
I have been boycotting Tyson Foods ever since learning about their relationship with the Clintons. That has been some time!
No, that would be WHAT THE CLUCK?
Most of these unions where illegal aliens are employed (like Tyson) pretty much could care less for America. Note that a number of unions support illegal alien amnesty
Of course, Tyson uses a lot of non-union labor....so this really isnt much of a union issue.
Also, I am surprised so many Muslims work for Tyson...especially the extreme fundamentalist variety. Sounds like Tyson is just another one of those companies that is just Liberal Globalist
Until the government can tell non-government businesses what days to work or not, it is up to the consumer to decide whethter they want to support such a business.
Boycott Tyson. Just do it!
WE THE PEOPLE, have we all forgotten, BOYCOTT WHAT YOUR ARE DISATISFIED WITH! Strength in #
I’m glad of the multiple postings, having been out of town this is the first I’ve read of it.
It won’t be a problem for me to buy anything other than the Tyson brand, even though it has been a regular brand of ours.
This is AMERICA, and they need to remember it.
How much longer before a Muslim takes “offense” at the plant being closed on Christmas Day?
This ends me ever buying any product produced by Tyson Foods in the future.
This ends me ever buying any product produced by Tyson Foods in the future.
Just google Tyson filthy plants and you will come up with lots of stuff..I have not bought Tyson for many years and if I see anyone picking up a package of Tyson products from the shelf then I tell them how filthy these products are..besides having illegals working in the factories..
Partly why we started to raise our own poultry. A Mennonite neighbor lady dresses them for us.
First the Flight 93 Memorial disgrace, now Tyson bumping an American holiday for a muslim one.
What’s next on the PC calendar?
We have the most productive workforce in the world. Shouldn’t that be celebrated?
I think celebrating it by paying them more would be nice - those that truly are most productive, on an individual rather than class basis. It's interesting (although not entirely relevant to the question at hand) that most Federal holidays are observed only by government organizations and banks, which happen to be some of our *least* productive entities.
Sometimes I question whether or not to have more children. What will this world be like when they are grown up.
Scary.
If conservatives don’t have children, the enemy wins by attrition. I’m bringing my kids up to be American heroes. If this country goes down the skids, it won’t be my fault. My 17-year-old daughter is wondering if she should enlist in the Air Force next year, instead of pursuing an ROTC scholarship, because “The war might be over before I get there!” (I offered a survey of recent conflict, and she agreed that there will be a war *somewhere* when she graduates college :-).
It’s not the world so much as certain people in the world, and whether you are able to bring them up enough without their negative influences corrupting them before they can defend themselves from them and still keep trusting you as their parents.
An obscured (sept instead of may) socialist holiday or a muslim holiday.
I guess I’d keep labor day. Communists aren’t nearly as fanatical as radical islam. Not too many willing to stay socialist/communist even to the point of death.
Ideally I’d ban both and celebrate Washington’s birthday again.
Well if they don’t like it, go to work at Agriprocessors.
Agreed ... or Lee-Jackson Day.
As for Labor Day, I'm all for it with the thought that all labor is honorable whether it's on an assembly line or in an office. It's too European and un-American for manual laborers to overly distrust those who work with their minds or in management. Honest work is just as noble whether it be in an office or a factory floor. And in th opposite direction, it is just as distasteful to look down on those who engage in manual labor. An honest worker at McDonald's is of more value to society than a crook in an exalted job.
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