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  • Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr

    08/02/2008 1:41:53 AM PDT · by radu · 127 replies · 330+ views
    Shelbyville Times-Gazette ^ | Friday, August 1, 2008 | Brian Mosely
    Workers at Tyson Foods' poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall. A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility "implements a new holiday to accommodate the ... Muslim workers at the plant." The RWDSU stated that "the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan." read full article at Times-Gazette