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Bias suits settled with Gold'n Plump, job agency (Muslim workers receive $1.35 million)
startribune.com ^ | March 31, 2009

Posted on 04/01/2009 5:24:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A federal judge gave approval for Gold'n Plump Inc. and an employment agency to pay $1.35 million to settle lawsuits alleging religious discrimination against Muslims at a chicken processing plant in Cold Spring, Minn.

The money will go to 128 Somali Muslims who claim that St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump violated their religious rights by refusing to allow them prayer breaks during work hours, and to another 28 workers who said a St. Paul employment agency, the Work Connection Inc., required them to sign forms acknowledging they would be required to handle pork.

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1 posted on 04/01/2009 5:24:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Our country, our rules. Your country, your rules. Don’t dictate to us what you want from us when you come here .....


2 posted on 04/01/2009 5:25:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The $1.35 million settlement includes $985,000 for legal costs and $365,000 in cash payments to the 156 workers.


3 posted on 04/01/2009 5:26:13 PM PDT by alisasny (It's the oxymoronical existence of the average liberal moron that astounds anyone with a brain.)
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To: SkyDancer

Or what? We will give you $1.35 million dollars? They drag our soldiers through the streets like animals and we let them live here, doing exponentially better than they ever could have; and they are still not satisfied.


4 posted on 04/01/2009 5:28:49 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
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To: alisasny

$2300 each? Still far to much. Working during work hours and handling pork are conditions of employment in a meat packing plant.

If keeping halal is so gosh darned important, don’t get a job that isn’t, fer Christsake!


5 posted on 04/01/2009 5:30:06 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 72 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: WildcatClan

and a PAID BREAK TO GO PRAY.....I am sick over this..


6 posted on 04/01/2009 5:30:18 PM PDT by alisasny (It's the oxymoronical existence of the average liberal moron that astounds anyone with a brain.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well I have to wonder how this would have turned out if they were white Christians.


7 posted on 04/01/2009 5:30:40 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I have to wonder if these companies once thought they were getting a good deal with cheap labor? And now we are headed down the road to Sharia when everything must take into account Muslim sensitivities, Muslim prayer times, Muslim holidays. Welcome to the dictatorship of the minorities.


8 posted on 04/01/2009 5:30:43 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: WildcatClan

I think there will be a big backlash towards Islam in the US. Schools being told they have to provide prayer rooms, foot baths ... when will supermarkets be told they have to cover pork and alcohol products. WalMart is going to set up a separate food section with carpets for Muslims ....


9 posted on 04/01/2009 5:33:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: alisasny

You are right to be, although I don’t want you sick. I feel like I am lost in a country of blobs, because no one has any backbone anymore. They just sort of ooze around wherever the momentum takes them.


10 posted on 04/01/2009 5:33:29 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
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My guess is that the company chose to settle was directly related to the sad reality of expensive legal fees, and not because they acknowledged any wrongdoing to the 156 employees. After all, $2340 per plaintiff is really still “nuisance value” in this day and age. Of course, the plaintiffs’ attorneys are the ones who really made out like gangbusters.


11 posted on 04/01/2009 5:35:45 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud Military Wife -- my DH is in his 26th year of military service! PRAY 4 OUR TROOPS!)
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To: SkyDancer

It is crazy. We don’t have the footbaths around here (yet) but when and if we do, I will be the first to take a protest dump in one.


12 posted on 04/01/2009 5:36:25 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Um, so if they were required to handle pork without having signed the document, are they saying they wouldn’t have sued? So what is the company supposed to do? How is signing a document stating you are aware of the work duties discrimination? Sounds like the company was trying to avoid any potential for a problem in a very responsible manner.


13 posted on 04/01/2009 5:36:52 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is the kind of thing which infuriates me. Clearly giving special privileges to Muslims which would never be allowed to Christians.

I honestly wouldn’t care if Americans drug that judge through the streets.


14 posted on 04/01/2009 5:37:41 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: SkyDancer

they won.

this country is falling so fast


15 posted on 04/01/2009 5:39:01 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: WildcatClan

And then be charged with a hate crime ... here in Seattle we had a Muslim shoot up a Jewish office killing one woman and injuring seven others ... hate crime? Nope, defense is he was mentally unstable. If it was the other way round though ...


16 posted on 04/01/2009 5:39:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: WildcatClan

A nation gone mad!


17 posted on 04/01/2009 5:40:17 PM PDT by oldtimer
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To: GeronL
Don't despair, not yet we haven't. As my favorite philosopher once said "Dey don't know us very well, do dey?"

This Means War!

18 posted on 04/01/2009 5:43:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I no longer live in the United States of America. It no longer exists.


19 posted on 04/01/2009 5:48:29 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: SkyDancer

Too late.


20 posted on 04/01/2009 5:48:47 PM PDT by nobama08
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