Posted on 09/11/2008 4:18:52 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Fired Muslim workers plan 'low-profile' day
Chris Casey
About 100 Muslim workers fired Wednesday by JBS Swift & Co. in Greeley planned a “low-profile” day today in recognition of the victims of the 9-11 massacre seven years ago, according to one of the workers’ leaders.
Kaise Egal, who hasn’t worked at Swift but is a leader of the local Muslim workers, said the fired workers were staying low-key “in respect to the 9-11 victims.”
“We told the people to be low-profile and not to demonstrate,” Egal said in a phone interview. “That’s why we didn’t do the walk (on Monday) from the (downtown Greeley) park to the Swift facility.”
The weeklong dispute between the Muslim workers at JBS Swift flared Wednesday with about 100 workers receiving termination notices when they reported to the plant in mid-afternoon for the late shift.
JBS Swift management said the firings were due to the employees violating the union contract by walking off the job without authorization Friday evening.
The Muslim workers claim they were trying to break for prayers at about 7:30 p.m. in accordance with an agreement made with the company.
JBS Swift officials, meanwhile, said the agreement was a compromise made between Muslim and non-Muslim workers to change the mid-shift break from about 9:15 p.m. to 8 p.m.
They said they warned the workers who walked out Friday night they would be terminated if they didn’t return to work for their Tuesday shifts. About 120 Muslim workers returned Tuesday, but another 100 or so didn’t. Those were the ones who were fired Wednesday afternoon.
The fired workers are now planning legal action and representatives United Food Commercial Workers Local 7 say the union will file grievances on behalf of the fired workers, if the workers seek that support.
Manny Gonzales, spokesman for UFCW Local 7, said Wednesday he was “shocked” by the firings and felt the company didn’t give enough notice that the workers’ jobs were in jeopardy.
“There might be some who just chose not to go back (Tuesday), but we think they majority just didn’t get enough notice,” he said.
Egal said the fired workers planned to go as a group to the local unemployment office Friday. The workers also plan to meet on the weekend to talk with a lawyer.
Linda Perez, division head of Employment Services of Weld County, said Wednesday that the office for several years has worked with JBS Swift on filling labor needs. She said company representatives regularly conduct interviews and process applications at the employment services office at 1551 N. 17th Ave.
In past years, Perez said, JBS Swift has periodically increased recruitment efforts through the office. However, as of Wednesday morning she hadn’t noticed any stepped-up processing of applications during the current dispute with Muslim workers.
I don’t think Swift had much choice in their hiring of these people considering the EEO regulations they had to follow.
The Westboro folks may be scum but there aren’t millions of them screaming for blood or filming themselves hacking people’s heads off for the sake of thier lust for death porn.
Yeah, a little friendly ‘suggestion’ about how nice it would be if they could hire some refugees can work wonders...
....Everything attitude where sharia law trumps secular law,...
I think that in Africa, tribal greed is the problem and handily trumps Sharia law. The immigrants from Somolia are the result of liberal dogoodism and guilt
You are right. Tribalism is a serious problem all over the African continent but why are Somalies so dogmatically, fundamentally Muslim here? A lot of Muslim groups actually denounce their interpretation of the Quran as extreme. They are the ones who refuse to transport people from the Minneapolis Airport if they are carrying alcohol, who insist on footbaths at the airport, who refuse to check grocery customers who are buying pork products, who refuse to have anything to do with dogs, even seeing eye dogs. I suspect that tribalism and Islam together have turned Somalia into the armpit it now is.
Are all the cabs at the Mpls airport taken ?
.....but why are Somalies so dogmatically, fundamentally Muslim here.....
It can be strongly argued it is because they haven’t been here long enough to have the sharp edges rounded off. For instance, consider Catholics. Nancy Pelosi is arguing with the Archbishop about the dogma. Babtists no longer have total conniptions when Walmart sells Beer. There seems to be a very large number of Jews who barely practice at all.
The Swiss very fundamental sect of my grandmother is all but gone.
no... you wouldn’t be wrong about that... but does the Bible have a chapter in it that allows the believers to kill and rape the unbelievers?
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. — Numbers 31:15-18
Let's see which group shows up at your house in a blood lust.
Wow! On FR you get threatened with your life for quoting the bible!
Wouldn't that be commiting a sin?
No... it was satire... I never expected to you take me up on it... however, you are a frickin’ idiot for comparing modern Christians with Muslims...
is this a riddle? I'm sorry, I don't do riddles...
is this a riddle? I'm sorry, I don't do riddles...
It is not a riddle. One would think that you would know what a sin is. Sorry if you don't.
Sophistry. You have to believe that the Koran and the Bible are the same with regard to prescriptions about treatment of non-believers to accept your argument.
"Common uncomprehending responses to satire include revulsion (accusations of poor taste, or that it's "just not funny" for instance), to the idea that the satirist actually does support the ideas, policies, or people he is attacking. For instance, at the time of its publication, many people misunderstood Swift’s purpose in "A Modest Proposal" – assuming it to be a serious recommendation of economically-motivated cannibalism. Again, some critics of Mark Twain see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its author clearly intended it to be satire (racism being in fact only one of a number of Mark Twain's known pet bugbears attacked in Huckleberry Finn)."
however, you are a frickin’ idiot for comparing modern Christians with Muslims...
You know, you should really NOT make unsubstantiated allegations. I made NO comparison.
they got swiftbooted
the somalians are here because of a UN project.
there are a bunch of them in Norway as well - like duhh.
these people are human beings - I realize that - but we should never have accepted them.
they have no intention of assimilating in any way, shape, or form and will continue to be problematic.
another reason for the US to get out of the UN and for the UN to get out of the US.
Good point. I just wish the politically correct would help them assimilate.
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