Posted on 08/24/2007 12:10:29 PM PDT by Baladas
OMAHA — Meatpacking plant officials accused of discriminating against dozens of Somali Muslim workers have offered to tweak break times to help accommodate the workers’ prayer demands.
If the dozens of Muslim workers and Swift & Co. can agree on details, a solution could defuse the dispute that started earlier this year when 120 workers at the Grand Island plant abruptly quit because they weren’t allowed to pray at sunset.
Many say they were fired, quit or were verbally and physically harassed over the issue, and some have complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about the way they were treated. In a letter to lawyers representing the workers, Swift said it could eliminate some breaktime conflicts, and offered to negotiate more scheduling flexibility with the union to allow more prayer time if the workers agreed to the proposal.
Advocates for the workers said Thursday that they were encouraged by the proposal, but said they would not accept a solution that did not accommodate the prayers for the whole year.
“We’ll continue negotiations with the company and hopefully we’ll come out with a solution that everybody can deal with,” said Rima Kapitan, a lawyer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations who is representing the workers in the dispute. “We’re certainly not going to accept their proposals at their face.”
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Tell them to pray at home and then go to work like everyone else has to do.
If Swift settles then they are off my ‘buy’ list.
Get these skunks out of our country! Before they totally dhimmify us. We all know what’s in store for us after dhimmification.
Good Friday is a prime example the correlates to this crap. Most places have to deduct their time for any time off. I hope the praying done by the Mooslims is deducted from their time-cards. If not, someone ought to file suit for time off on Good Friday. I think the answer is we Americans need to pray more often in public so be can have the same bennies demanded by people from foreign lands who like it so much in the U.S. of A.
“Somali Muslims” Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Perhaps somebody can help me with this one. The only meat I have ever purchased with a Swift and Co. label on it is Pork. All types of Pork.
Do the Muslim’s actually handle Pork?
You know those “footwashing” stations that “everyone can use”?
Sounds like a good place to wash out your bacon greased frying pan...
or to toss a few raw strips of bacon in...
It’s a beef plant.
One step at a time. The Muslims have learned by example from the leftists.
“Do the Muslim’s actually handle Pork?”
That will be the next thing Swift has to give up. By the by, so will you.
“There seems to be a lot of bias right now for this group of Americans,” Snodgrass said Thursday. “With 9/11 and the Iraq war, it’s just a group of Americans that’s encountering a lot of discrimination right now.”
HAMSHIT! They want special breaks, not equal.
Do Christian workers get special treatment when they want to pray? Do Jews get Sabbath off? Do Hindus ... well, I guess you wouldn’t find many Hindus working in a meatpacking plant ... but you get the point.
Not if they are bag boys or taxi drivers!
Drip...drip...drip. As the toxic ocean of Sharia washes over us one community at a time.
“It’s a beef plant.”
Thanks, I thought so, but as I said Pork is all I’ve ever purchased with their label.
More contamination than the Chinese, I predict.
“Do the Muslim’s actually handle Pork?”
“That will be the next thing Swift has to give up. By the by, so will you.”
It’ll be Flag and lead flying before my Country or my Pork are taken from me.
If America is not a Christian country, then it will be an Islamic country.
Pick one.
Swift is a private concern. If they think this is the profitable thing for them to do, it’s their business. Of course, it’s my business who I want to buy meat from.
Despite the qualms voiced by certain Moslems, the opinion of the various imams has been that they can handle it, they just can't ingest it.
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