Posted on 09/10/2008 9:51:39 PM PDT by george76
At least 130 Muslim workers at the north Greeley JBS Swift & Co. plant were fired Wednesday afternoon, apparently over a dispute involving breaks during Ramadan.
At issue is a request by Muslim workers to be able to take their lunch breaks at sunset to end their fast during Ramadan... expressed their dissatisfaction with negotiations by saying, No prayer, no work.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Yep you are missing ehat you meant with your byline:
Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs aka dangerous illegal immigration!
hey you stole that from me.... but I like it!!!!
They are a funny lot. They all drink as best I can tell but only the good stuff. Mostly wine. They abstain from liquor and beer. I have only met a few bad ones and they were fresh off the boat.
When these Somalis got these jobs, they laughed at how much the “naive Americans” were willing to pay them. They probably believe the Americans will beg them to come back. When they see the “udocumented workers” lining up to take their jobs, they will riot.
Joe Rios, a day-shifter for nine months at Swift, said he felt the Somalis were asking for special treatment and “taking advantage of our kindness” in America. He said “most of us” at Swift are Catholic and observe a month of Lent each year without seeking work concessions based on religion.
“I think it’s either you want to make money and work and put your prayers aside or you stay home,” he said.
Rios said he’d heard that some disgruntled Muslim workers damaged property in the Swift parking lot Friday.
http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/2008109089983
Heaven forbid but can Obama be fired if he also celebrates Ramadan and it affects the leadership of our country?
Swift gets nailed for hiring illegal aliens from Mexico then turns around and tries to take advantage of MUslim immigrants from Somalia. They try to strong arm Swift.
That’s what happens when you try to negotiate American business terms with third world people.
They are free to find an employer who does subscribe to their obsessive-compulsive disorder habits.
“At issue is a request by Muslim workers to be able to take their lunch breaks at sunset”
That would mean working THROUGH the lunch hour which means having someone ELSE give up his lunch hour to watch the lines.
Many companies REQUIRE employees to take a break at some point in the day to combat fatigue and clear the mind. Plus the Unions don’t like the establishment of a reason to “shifttime” your lunch break to the end of the day.
This is not so easy to “let them do as they want”.
swiftbooted
If they are Somali, I seriously doubt that they could be deported. Because we are such a generous country and because our government is so eager to give away everything that brave men have fought and died for ... these folks are imported at a staggering rate (IMHO) and automatically given anything and everything.
[I have met many friendly decent muslims, and see no problem trying to be accommodating to such folks at work in regard to things like fasting during daylight and taking prayer breaks...provided it won't prevent them from doing good work. ]
Today is 9/11. I'll Accomodate Islam when hell freezes over.
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:
Nation % Muslim
United States 1.0%
Australia 1.5%
Italy 1.5%
Norway 1.8%
Canada 1.9%
China 2.0%At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:
Nation % Muslim
Denmark 2.0%
United Kingdom 2.7%
Germany 3.7%
Spain 4.0%
Thailand 4.6%etc. etc.
100% will usher in the peace of Dar-es-Salaam the Islamic House of Peace theres supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: Nation % Muslim
Yemen 99.9%
Afghanistan 100.0%
Saudi Arabia 100.0%
Somalia 100.0%http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079073/posts?page=8#8
I don’t get this. When we win a war against a nation, we have to accept their refugees and give them financial aid to rebuild. When we lose a war against a nation, we have to accept their refugees and give them financial aid.
And our socialist critics have the chutzpah to call us “imperialist”.
Do you suppose that they process any pork in that plant?
My favorite: You are throwing the human rights card around like youre trying to get it in a hat.”
In this house, Muzzies don’t count as humans.
I smell a major law suit by the ACLU.
Good for them!!!
I’ll go buy some Swift products today.
Those drunk with their power believe that the (world's) hate for us will somehow be quelled by our generosity and caring. Forget looking at what our largess actually accomplishes ... kinda like they refuse to examine the lack of progress of the poverty-stricken in the US, even though they have all kinds of government support.
It appears to be only us peons are able to recognize the problems. The Somali muslims, as well as others, must think that we are the most ignorant humans to ever walk the earth. We invite them in and then, slowly but surely, change our customs, rules, laws and culture to make sure that we accomodate theirs. Hispanic illegals probably have similar thoughts. Who knew that a bunch of uneducated poor folks could take over the most powerful nation ever known ... without ever firing a shot or developing powerful weapons.
I miss the country that I knew when I was a child. My apologies for the rant ...
Swift is very much into pork products, so if they are devout Muslims, they shouldn’t be working there anyway.
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