This is absolute lunacy.
Tyson drops Labor Day, but it will pay for Muslim holiday
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — 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.
Tyson’s director of media relations, Gary Mickelson, said the contract includes eight paid holidays — the same number that were granted under 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 say implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant, which employs 1,200 people.
How many of their relatives died for our freedom? What a load of horseshit. I’ll never buy another Tyson product.
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Strike another one up for out of control labor unions. And I thought Tennessee was a “right to work” state?
The one guy was right – why should they build a prayer room for Muzzies? I bet if a Christian asked for a chapel from the company or the union the answer would be an emphatic “NO!”
Labor Day is not Memorial Day
Labor Day was a political creation of LABOR UNIONS.
Why are you angry?
Is it because they’re Muslims?
Is it because they’re immigrants?
Is it because they’re taking our jobs?
Is it because they got a monolithic corporation to yield to the majority of its workers?
Is it because society doesn’t accommodate Christians who want to get Good Friday and Christmas off?
Is it because Clinton totally bungled Somalia?
I really don’t get it.
Ok I see where youre going with this…but, over half of the plant is Muslim so getting the Muslim holiday seems to make sense. And does labor day have anything to do with anyones relatives dying for our freedom. I mean it would be one thing if we were talking about the 4th of July, but labor day is, arguably, historically a socialist holiday started by unions to celebrate unions. Now I enjoy Labor Day, but I also can imagine how you feel about socialists, Dan.