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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: george76

No bacon, no pay.


21 posted on 09/16/2008 2:17:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Palin for President! (PUMA))
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To: reagan_fanatic

I think the issue is in hiring. When you hire someone who is a Muslim - it’s somewhat common knowledge that you may be faced with this, so before you hire 500, you may want to consider either a) allowing for the holiday or b) not hiring 500 Muslims. It’s really pretty simple.


22 posted on 09/16/2008 2:18:24 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: george76
The fact that there are 500 moslems in the state of NE is troubling. Especially when they seem to be concentrated in some kind of colony.
23 posted on 09/16/2008 2:18:28 PM PDT by webrover
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To: george76

Buh Bye


24 posted on 09/16/2008 2:19:12 PM PDT by Nachum (Sarah Palin: Baberaham Lincoln)
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To: george76
Just another Muslim attempt to chip away at the status quo. Bit by bit they will end up with control just as they did in Britain where the Brits just caved in and recognized Sharia law. Time to put your foot down and if it happens to land on the head of someone who's praying on company time, fire ‘em.
25 posted on 09/16/2008 2:19:24 PM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: george76
Do I understand this correctly...

..a Christian isn't allowed to wear any jewelry symbolic of their faith to work ...

..at Christmas they're not allowed to sing Christmas carols or reference the season in this respect...

..but the Muslims are raising a stink if they can't 'pray' 5 times a day (& disrupt their company's work schedule) because it's Ramadan!

Let's see how this one develops....

26 posted on 09/16/2008 2:19:38 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Pining_4_TX
Between welcoming Muslim refugees, the high birthrate of Muslims, and our open borders, we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction.

Just knowing that angry islamdethals are working in food processing makes me nervous.
27 posted on 09/16/2008 2:20:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: george76

What effect would it have if a candidate for president or, for that matter, a conservative senator, proposed a law, modeled on the anti-trust laws, that would give the workers whom the Muslims replaced in the first place the right to sue for triple damages and counsel fees? Perhaps, as with the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act, punitive damages could be added on top of the treble damages and counsel fees for particularly egregious decisions to harm Americans in the jobs in favor of Muslims or illegal Hispanics. How long would it take for the mass hirings of such cheap labor to stop? What if the law we suggest also gave the same right to competitore who, not being willing to adopt such labor practices, kept on using regular Americano workers? What if the disadvantaged competitors and the displaced workers could jointly sue for treble damages, counsel fees and punitive damages if the decision wss deliberate? How long would it take for such practices to stop if there were a really possibility of such law suits?


28 posted on 09/16/2008 2:22:23 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: george76
JBS Swift & Co - Swift is the second-largest processor of beef and pork products in the world, and has more than $10 billion in annual sales.

Hmmm..makes note to pass over Swift Meats, especially a company with "disgruntled meat packers".

29 posted on 09/16/2008 2:22:23 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: george76

Same thing happened in Greeley, Co. Looks like a ‘soft jihad’ action.


30 posted on 09/16/2008 2:23:39 PM PDT by Be_Politically_Erect (If I didn't think he'd get emotionally attached to it, I'd tell Obama to kiss my A** !)
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To: george76

I have a real concern about sanitation...do they wear their long garb in the plant?

If they go in and out to pray and are on the floor, what kind of sanitation can you have with that???!!!!!!

This is outrageous.. Clearly, they don’t want to do the job.

How is it discrimination to want to run your business in a business like way?

this is part of their systematic deconstruction of our culture...

No way would a Christian get to break for ANYTHING in ANY muslim country....

sheeeeesh.
And eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww to those clothes....on the floor....


31 posted on 09/16/2008 2:24:23 PM PDT by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD................)
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To: Centurion2000
"...Fire them..."

Yeah..., I love the smell of burning muslims in the morning!

32 posted on 09/16/2008 2:24:24 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: areukiddingme1

“Damn...the time in my life I wish I could say something in muslim...”

derga derga, Mohamed Jihad !!!


33 posted on 09/16/2008 2:25:04 PM PDT by Veeram ("Any fool (Liberal) can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." ---Benjamin Franklin)
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To: george76

500 Muslims are working at a meatpacking plant? Geez, what a great opportunity for one of them to “taint” some meat with some sort of desease to “make food war upon the infidels.” I hope someone at DHS has an eye on this because to me their presents in that industry represents a potential danger to the American people.

For the shorter term, I’d tell them they can have time off to pray but all 500 of you are being transfered to the bacon and sausage production area of the plant. Also, as a reassignment gift they each get a big bag of pork rines.


34 posted on 09/16/2008 2:25:41 PM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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To: BubbaBasher

And then send a few buses to Wall Street to pick up a lot of guys who suddenly need a job. :)


35 posted on 09/16/2008 2:26:15 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: george76

From the post above this one on the Forum..”the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other company newspapers have cut hundreds of jobs in an effort to balance expenses amid falling advertising revenue”. ............................... So where is the problem? There is work available for them now that the Muslims left the job.


36 posted on 09/16/2008 2:26:23 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (OBAMA, = Jimmah's big chance to get out of last place.)
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To: george76

And they are working there, why??


37 posted on 09/16/2008 2:26:46 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (What came first? Ignorance or Dems)
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To: george76

Keep walking, right on back to Somalia.


38 posted on 09/16/2008 2:27:52 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: fight_truth_decay

In NC there are many convenience stores that have restaurants inside, that are operated by Jordanians, Iraqis and other Muslims. Most of us are smart enought to avoid eating there, and others are just “business as usual”...what part of “there is no telling what they could put in your food” don’t they understand? We are the infidels last time I looked.


39 posted on 09/16/2008 2:27:52 PM PDT by Kackikat ( Without National Security all other issues are mute points; chaos ensues.))
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To: george76

Question: Why is it that you can’t circumcise a Muslim meat packing plant worker?

Answer: There’s just no end to those pri*ks.


40 posted on 09/16/2008 2:27:58 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Mr. Smith is coming back to Washington in the name of Sarah Palin.)
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