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Tyson Foods warms up to Islam
One News Now ^ | 8/3/2008 | AP Staff

Posted on 08/04/2008 6:19:25 AM PDT by IbJensen

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.

According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a new 5-year contract at the plant included the change to accommodate the hundreds of Somali Muslims who work at the plant .



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: immigration; islam; mohammedanism; muslimamericans; poultry; somalis; tyson; tysonfoods; workplace
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To: IbJensen

No more Tyson from the super. I’m going to local butchers from now on.


21 posted on 08/04/2008 7:19:04 AM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: IbJensen

Since I heard of the connection between Tyson and the Clintons, I haven’t bought any.


22 posted on 08/04/2008 7:21:03 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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To: IbJensen

I HAVE OFFICIALLY PURCHASED MY LAST TYSON PRODUCT EVER.


23 posted on 08/04/2008 7:22:11 AM PDT by catchem (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: fleagle
What the hell is happening here?

With the help of the limp-wristed socialists in our congress we are being eased out of the picture.

I don't know what it is that infects these weasels once they get to Washington, but whatever it is their heart and guts are replaced by a form of robotics.

24 posted on 08/04/2008 7:24:35 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Just fired off an email to Tyson letting them know that I will not be buying anymore of their products due to this decision. Screw ‘em!!!!!


25 posted on 08/04/2008 7:34:40 AM PDT by ladyvet (Obama..be afraid, be very afraid.)
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To: IbJensen

They warmed up to the klintoons so this is actually a step up.

The body count for the muslims is probably lower than that for the klintoons.


26 posted on 08/04/2008 7:54:48 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (PE)
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To: IbJensen

***I haven’t bought any products from Tyson since Hillary was put on their board and multiple plant closings took place for unsanitary conditions. ***

I, too, stopped buying Tyson products when I learned that they are a BIG contributor to the Dems.


27 posted on 08/04/2008 8:07:14 AM PDT by kitkat (EX DEO LIBERTAS (From God, liberty))
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To: IbJensen
Between muslim accommodation and illegal alien employment opportunities, Tyson's has quite a legacy.
28 posted on 08/04/2008 8:09:18 AM PDT by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: IbJensen

I bet they won’t be processing any pork chops or bacon in this plant.


29 posted on 08/04/2008 8:28:49 AM PDT by Ron/GA
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To: Teacher317
"nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people"

Even more reason to boycott Tyson products. I wonder how many of them dragged our troops through the streets of Mogadishu.

The dopes at Tyson probably don't know that Ramadan moves forward approximately 11 days each year. That means the holiday will be at a different time as it rotates through the calendar over the years. Hope it falls at inopportune times for the company.

30 posted on 08/04/2008 8:55:02 AM PDT by mass55th
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To: IbJensen

I suppose I need to have my wife buy Perdue.
I haven’t heard anything about Frank hiring muzzies.


31 posted on 08/04/2008 9:17:22 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: BuffaloJack
We buy Perdue products and haven't heard about their hiring mooselimbs.

What a nation we are being morphed into.

Illegal aliens running the kosher meat packers and mooselimbs plucking our chickens.

32 posted on 08/04/2008 9:43:00 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: Teacher317

illegal immigration welcome mats.


33 posted on 08/04/2008 10:59:55 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: IbJensen

We by a lot of raw material from them. I will tell this to the guy who does our purchasing.


34 posted on 08/04/2008 5:00:07 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: IbJensen
Couple of ramdom thoughts. The union members voted for this. It's called democracy. Look what happened in Gaza when they voted for hamas.

The company couls have said no, we won't require our supervisors and managers to work Labor Day or any other federal holiday.

35 posted on 08/04/2008 5:13:29 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: purpleraine
As far as I'm concerned, Tyson is, and has been, a weasely company that in order to get the cheapest labor they recruit Somali muslims.

This not only affects their workforce and opens their 'products' to the possibility of terrorist manipulation, but it packs the small Tennessee city with a rabble eagar to suck up more benefits.

the union members are a gaggle of African muslims who are, after all, the same people who dragged our dead soldiers through the streets of Mogadushu amongst cheers of onlookers.

Our businesses and our government is going out of its way to lard up our population with the scourge of the world which makes things even more miserable in this deeply troubled nation.

36 posted on 08/05/2008 5:27:02 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

WHERE IS THE ACLU?

(Yes, I am shouting on purpose)


37 posted on 08/05/2008 10:24:14 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: IbJensen

all that may be true, but what are you going to do when people vote?


38 posted on 08/05/2008 12:32:55 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: purpleraine
...what are you going to do when people vote?

What could you possibly mean?

These Somali Muslims can't vote....yet!

We can blame our do-nothing complicit el presidente and the 535 idiots that we elected to represent us!

39 posted on 08/05/2008 2:18:59 PM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

I think you’re missing the story. The union has 700 Somalis out of 1200 total. Days off are addressed in union contracts. Unions have to have their members ratify contracts. That means a vote. The Somali’s voted for their holiday. What change would you make to prevent that?


40 posted on 08/05/2008 2:23:39 PM PDT by purpleraine
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