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500 Muslim workers walk off job at Nebraska plant
Associated Press ^ | September 15, 2008

Posted on 09/16/2008 2:05:23 PM PDT by george76

Five-hundred Muslim workers walked off the job Monday at a Grand Island meatpacking plant after they say they were denied time to pray during the Muslim observance of Ramadan.

More than 100 workers at a Greeley Swift plant were fired last week because the company said they walked away from work before their shifts ended.

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Nebraska; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; culturewar; immigrantlist; islam; islamiclaw; lifeamongthekufir; mohammedanism; muslim; muslimamericans; muslims; ramadan; somalis; unions; workplace
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To: OBXWanderer

“I am assuming this is a “beef only” packing house....”

Change it over to pigs brfore they get hungry and want to return to work!


101 posted on 09/16/2008 6:33:03 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: E. Cartman
I'm ((really)) beginning to dislike this government and our leadership.

Me too. I used to think people who saw the government as a danger mostly to the already law-abiding were out on the fringe. Now I realize those "kooks" are largely right.

This government and our current leadership is downright scary.

102 posted on 09/16/2008 10:19:08 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Screwing up the plants that Americans won’t screw up. :’) Thanks geo.


103 posted on 09/16/2008 10:48:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: cripplecreek

No kidding! Every time there is a new food poisoning case I wonder if some of them might be behind it.


104 posted on 09/17/2008 9:59:09 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: cva66snipe

I couldn’t have said it better myself. I don’t understand why some conservatives think Bush has been a good president. He’s been a disaster.


105 posted on 09/17/2008 10:05:42 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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