Fired Muslim workers plan 'low-profile' day

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.

>"Would I be wrong is saying that all Baptists should not be judged according to what the Westboro folks do?"

Let me kn0w when the Baptists are up to 1400 years of murderous oppression.

>"Same for the folks who follow Islam."

What part of kill the infidel is causing you trouble in comprehension?

"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"

Did you notice that this verse is in the past tense? Maybe you did? Maybe you are too dogmatic to actually be objective?

Here are some queeranus quotes.

Note the tense. It is NOT past. It is PRESENT/CURRENT/TODAY!

Ishaq:327 “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6984] Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may Pigs be inseminating him) said: The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; kill him.

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Quran-4:89— Take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegades, seize them and kill them wherever ye find them; and take no friends or helpers from their ranks.

Sura 9:5 of the “Koranus,” “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”

Have you noticed the difference???????

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