We are getting close to having a cultural revolt in this country. European weanies already gave in to these demands, but Americans will not stand for this.
Another WTF?? moment
Why doesn’t Tyson Foods move its entire operation to the middle east and be done with it?
Between this BS and Tyson Foods’ overt pandering on behalf of the illegals it hires, it is pretty much an irrefutable fact that this company has no loyalty to the USA anymore. I haven’t been buying their branded food for awhile now. I hope more people do the same.
A Union opposing “Labor Day”?
Those employees should hope they dont get “sick” on Labor day weekend
And host a pork chop barbeque on their muslim holiday
Really show them; spend Eid al-Fitr eating ham sandwiches and drinking beer.
Time for an election to decertify the union!
I guess I'd be the only one in the office that day, then.
About a year ago I read about a Tyson plant in Alabama, staffed with illegals, that had a hepititus outbreak.
I have boycotted Tyson for a while. Guess I’ll continue to do so.
Don’t have the link to the article (read it at work) but a report I read yesterday said that the union workforce at this plan is about 1200 persons. 700 are Somalis.
The union negotiators had initially asked for Eid al Fitar (post-Ramadan feast day) as an additional paid holiday. Tyson’s would only pay for 8 holidays (regular number of Federal holidays). Tyson said pick and they picked. So a vote was taken and, not surprisingly, Eid al Fitar won out over Labor Day. The report was unclear if the 500 non-Muslim union employees would get the option of taking one or the other with pay. However, it is unlikely. I assume you need the whole union workforce (1200) to be there to run the place, so having 7/12ths there on Labor Day or 5/12ths there on Eid al Fitar isn’t going to work. By allowing them a choice, Tyson’s would lose two production days vice one.
So the 500 non-Muslim union employees are screwed. (I’d would of said 500 Americans but heck, most of the 500 could be from Central America, for all I know.)
The news article said that the non-union employees at the plant will continue to get Labor Day off with pay. Report didn’t mention how many non-union employees there are. My guess is that they are management and administrative staff and their number is small enough that they can off for the day without closing the plant down.
It will be interesting to see if the non-Muslims must also fast during the daytime during the month of Ramadan as a gesture of cultural-sensitivity to the Somalis.
Then we’ll know whether or not this is just a local labor adjustment or the first step in something else.
This is a joke right? Scrappleface?
Do these morons even know that the date of Eid al-Fitr changes every year?Because Ramadan moves forward each year, they will be having the holiday at different times each year. Each successive year, the starting date of Ramadan moves forward approximately 11 days. At some point, they’ll be having this holiday during the winter. Hope they enjoy it.
don’t forget, we got 2 more coming 1 if McNut dies in office and 1 for kennedy when he goes, nat’l drunk driving day, it will be know as.
-PJ
I’m not too far up the road from Tyson but I can guarantee they could have added a holiday much cheaper than extracting one. This will cost them dearly.