Posted on 07/23/2007 8:22:29 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
OMAHA, Neb. — Supervisors at a meatpacking plant have fired or harassed dozens of Somali Muslim employees for trying to pray at sunset, violating civil rights laws, the workers and their advocates say...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has drafted a complaint to be filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Jama Mohamed, 28, said he was fired in June for leaving a production line to pray. Supervisors would not allow him a break, he said.
"Some of them took the (prayer) mat from me; they started shouting, they started telling me to stop it, and one of them grabbed me by the collar of my shirt," Mohamed said through an interpreter...
Mohamed Rage, chairman of the Omaha Somali-American Community Organization, said Swift had fired at least two dozen workers for praying since May.
Donald Selzer, an attorney for Greeley, Colo.-based Swift, said only three Somali workers were fired for reasons relating to the issue, and that it was for walking off the line without permission, not for praying.
Unscheduled breaks can force unplanned shutdowns of lines, Selzer said....But on the other hand, the only situations that I've been made aware of are people that walk off the job without permission, and that's a different kind of an issue."...
Swift rejected a suggestion by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to allow the Somalis who work evenings to leave in smaller shifts to avoid disrupting lines, said Rima Kapitan, an attorney with the group...
"We're perfectly happy to try to pursue that angle so that we don't have this conflict," Selzer said. "But given the people who are on the second shift — many of whom prefer to be there — this sort of presents the operational realities."
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The idiosy continues. Wait till we see the next chapter in the ongoing saga of angry muslims handling our food.
You can't make this stuff up...
They should feel free to leave for some jihadistan..
No praying during shift hours. They can repent later.
I assume they’re here legally?
Eponymous is as eponymous does...
Mohamed Rage, chairman...
They did that on purpose.
Mohamed Rage, chairman of the Omaha Somali-American Community Organization, said Swift had fired at least two dozen workers for praying since May.
Not fired for praying, but for waliking off the line without permission. I suppose white guys get to cause unscheduled shutdowns whenever they want?
Mohamed Rage??
Must I say it.
That would be their ancestral hell hole of Somalia. What gets me is that they ASKED to be on the shift that conflicts with their prayer schedule. What ever happened to “When in Rome....”?
Are they going to start handling pork products?
Can we assume they were working in beef not in pork ?
Keep your wierd crap out of the workplace and stop bothering people.
I belong to the church of one. About two times a day, I am struck by the need to lay down on a mat, cover myself with a blanket, close my eyes, slow my breathing and meditate for an hour.
Is anyone looking for a guy that is willing to work 6 hours and get paid for 8?
Don’t hire them - Problem solved
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