Posted on 08/04/2008 1:48:09 PM PDT by FateRewritten
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 granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.
According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a new five-year contract at the plant included the change to accommodate Muslim workers at the plant.
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Tyson's director of media relations Gary Mickelson said the contract includes eight paid holidays -- the same number as the old contract.
Eid al-Fitr -- which falls on Oct. 1 this year -- marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Union leaders said implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.
Nineteen-year plant veteran William Pentecost doesnt agree with the decision.
"I dont think it's right. I really don't think it's right," he said.
Tyson company spokeswoman Libby Lawson said by phone that, "This isn't a religious accommodation, this is a contractual agreement. The majority asked for it."
The change didnt bother some workers.
"I think it's fine. I dont have any problem with it. There's a whole bunch of them here, so they've got to do something for them," said worker John Smith.
"It shouldn't happen. I mean, I think, we're in America, you're in America, I think that they should go with our holidays," Pentecost said.
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He said he helped build a special Muslim prayer room that's located inside the plant and that no other Tyson facility has been that accommodating for any other religion.
"If we want to go pray, we dont have one for Christians," he said.
Tyson is headquartered in Arkansas.
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You’d think they’d make something out of it. Even if not more than stink bait for catfish, etc.
Dog meal?
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Are you kidding me? This country has been trying to batter Christians left and right and then something like this takes place. Christmas has been under attack to the point that a manger scene was considered a terror threat. Planned parenthood sent Christmas cards out declaring abortion as a way to bring peace on earth. The worst part is the American people have become so complacent in everything anymore. If it continues we will all be under Islam. And don’t say it can’t happen,while we don’t have children and have aborted 55 million children the Muslims are multiplying like rabbits. History has shown population does make a difference in fighting the enemy, especially now that they can walk right in the front door and make demands for their religious beliefs. Why the people in this country have become so lazy in their faith and actions in regards to just about everything,including their freedoms is down right scary. Too many people don’t vote,don’t call or write their leaders,they do nothing but bitch. If the people today was around the revolutionary war we would still be under British rule. What has happened to this beloved country and the people? Just a couple days ago I talked to a friend of mine and was relating a story about politics and she said most people don’t take an interest or have any knowledge of what’s going on today. Well she was right about that. As a Christian I have seen over the years the way a lot of Christians have turned their back on their faith or believed in doctrines of evil,those who openly accept homosexuality and abortion,God has certainly been put on the back burner for a while now. Woe to those that call evil good and good evil.
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