Do Mormons work at Starbucks or do gentiles do all the dirty work?
Posted on 09/18/2008 7:49:36 AM PDT by Publius804
Union: Muslim Workers Reach Deal for Prayer Break
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:58 PM
OMAHA, Nebraska — A meatpacking plant has agreed to accommodate Muslim workers' request for prayer time during Ramadan, union officials said Wednesday.
Earlier this week 300 Muslim JBS Swift & Co. workers, most of Somali background, walked off the job in protest of the prayer dispute. No one was fired after the protest.
Dan Hoppes, president of the local United Food and Commercial Workers Union, said management at the plant has agreed to temporarily change the timing of the second-shift lunch break to accommodate workers wanting time to pray during the Muslim observance of Ramadan.
Workers previously took the 30-minute break in shifts. The change will force the entire line to break at once. The arrangement will be in effect the next nine working days, which will cover the remainder of Ramadan, Hoppes said.
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You let them in — you live with it. Already changing the rules....that is their objective.
How does the company handle Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Easter??
They will continue to erode the current labor agreements, change long-standing traditions and eventually upcut the workers who abide by the rules they hired on to obey.
Why are muslims given preference?
We are making them more comfortable for domestic terrorism???
That’s what I’d like to know. They should ask...NO DEMAND the same prayer rights. This is where the rubber meets the road and we’ll see how it is handled.
I think so.
the place my sister works at does not let workers off on Christmas. My sister had to work last Christmas. It was short hours and overtime pay though.
I guess workplace accommodations would be right... just as long as they don’t fly cows into the meat grinders.
This is not over- Mexicans, Sudanese and Vietnamese all walked off the job yesterday because of what they see as special privileges to a few. Big issue, hot topic and not done.
Isn’t it Iftar already?
So, the muslims now earned recruits of socialism, while honest working folkes get the shaft.
No meat from them, ever.
The idiots who allowed so many Somali to be hired into one company that they could dictate company policy by threatening strike — should be fired.
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Union?????
“... Workers including Caucasians, Hispanics, Vietnamese, and African-Americans walked out after clocking in on the B shift shortly after 3 p.m.
The objection — a change in the break schedule that leaves B shift workers shorted of hours Monday through Friday and forces them to work Saturday to earn at least 40 hours of pay.
“The Somalians say they can only work three hours after sunset, so we’re supposed to work 7.3 hours a day Monday through Friday,” said Naomi Jakubowski. “We’re supposed to come in and make up the time on Saturday or be shorted at just 36 hours.”
“I don’t want to sacrifice my Saturdays with my kids — and I can’t raise ‘em on 36 hours of pay,” she said. “I’ve got rent, food and diapers to buy.”
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