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Hertz suspends Muslim workers for praying on job
AP via CBS News ^ | Oct. 7, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 10/08/2011 3:10:59 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

SEATAC, Wash. - Rental car company Hertz indefinitely suspended 34 Somali Muslim shuttle drivers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for praying on company time, and the workers' union is trying to put them back in the driver's seat after what it calls a sudden policy change.

The drivers are required to clock out, under the terms of a settlement two years ago with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Hertz spokesman Rich Broome said.

"We felt it was reasonable for our Muslim employees who need to pray a couple times during the workday to clock in and clock out," Broome said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hertz; islam; jihad; muslims
The [Teamsters] union represents nearly 80 Hertz drivers who earn between $9.15 and $9.95 an hour. They receive no health benefits, vacation or sick leave. About 70 percent of them are Muslims. Observant Muslims pray five times a day.

On Wednesday, a few dozen people from labor and faith organizations protested outside the Hertz counter at the airport, waving signs saying, "Respect me, Respect my religion."

Making inroads, always making inroads....

1 posted on 10/08/2011 3:11:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

Muzzies doing the jobs Americans used to do.


2 posted on 10/08/2011 3:15:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: La Enchiladita

I don’t know how long they pray, maybe it was excessive.
I was always pissed of at employees who took multiple smoke breaks.
I don’t smoke,and I did not get the same beraks.


3 posted on 10/08/2011 3:18:07 PM PDT by JimmyMc
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To: La Enchiladita

protested outside the Hertz counter at the airport, waving signs saying, “Respect me, Respect my religion.”
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Well, obviously this means that (at least) 5 times a day they are NOT picketing - or do they only pray when on the clock or ‘disrupting’ business.


4 posted on 10/08/2011 3:32:51 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) If govt involved, the more outlandish a scheme appears, the truer it probably is.)
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To: La Enchiladita

If they want to be respected by the “secular” world for their religion, they have to behave themselves like people of other religions do in similar circumstances. If a Jewish person or a Catholic, say, wants to go to his house of worship for a holy day falling during the work week, he arranges for the time off. Muslims should similarly treat these prayer stops as non working breaks. You’d think even CAIR would be admonishing these bums for the needless bad publicity for American Muslims.


5 posted on 10/08/2011 3:41:37 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

They are illustrating that it is not about religion but about domination. They are substituting their culture for ours. It has always been the muslim way; they do not adapt. They could care less about “religious freedom” in the the countries they dominate, but here they will use our religious freedom to their advantage.

IOW, the error is in considering islam to be a religion.


6 posted on 10/08/2011 3:46:15 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita
Fire the Mooslimes. There are plenty of Americans who will that their jobs.
7 posted on 10/08/2011 3:50:21 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: MasterGunner01

that = take


8 posted on 10/08/2011 3:51:26 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: La Enchiladita

I don’t disagree, and typically any bid by a religious body to act this way has been treated unkindly by the “secular” world. I say “secular” in the sense that the people may be quite religious on their own, and may openly disagree with religions that they do not believe in and may attempt to win people to their own beliefs, but they still permit others to pursue their own religious practices. This toleration stops where the other religion begins to muscle in through more than argument. If this gives Muslims a black eye, then rightly so. Again, if CAIR had any sense they’d tell these clowns to back off their personal bullying jihads.


9 posted on 10/08/2011 3:55:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: La Enchiladita

Technically, I’d disagree that Islam is “not a religion.” It’s a religion that is virtually unique in that, at least in its fundamentalist forms, has a tenet of world conquest by force if need be. Other religions have eschatologies that often predict a very tumultous turning over of the world to their view, but this invariably is predicted to occur by the aid of fearsome divine or supernatural miracles. Islam is the do-it-yourself version. It is a religion — the rabid dog of religions.


10 posted on 10/08/2011 4:00:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: La Enchiladita

Muslims need to go back to the country they came from, if they want time off from work to pray. Why is Hertz hiring so many muslims, anyway? 70%?


11 posted on 10/08/2011 4:17:31 PM PDT by Joyell
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Well until the smoke Nazi’s pushed everyone outdoors, it wasn’t a problem. I don’t smoke myself, but making them move further and further away will only make them less productive.


12 posted on 10/08/2011 5:44:41 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: La Enchiladita
Yep! They pray 5 times a day--day meaning not the daylight, but 24 hours.

When at University, our daughter, divorced and raising a small child while working and carrying a full study load, lived in an apt. complex just below God only knows how many Muslims, whose knees hit the floor simultaneously and hard twice a night, while raising their voices fit to be heard in Mecca sans phone. One time was always in the wee hours, like 1-4 AM. She had to have some rest, so I told her to move, not complain, as there was no telling the retaliation they might take if she complained.

They do not care where they are --on the street?--no problem! just bow their head and stick their butt in the air wherever.

Would Hertz allow a Christian to clock out to pray, say during Lent or the Christmas season--not even daily,but a few special occasions a year? I think not!

vaudine

13 posted on 10/08/2011 6:02:17 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: La Enchiladita

I flew out of SeaTac on Tuesday and back in on Friday and didn’t see any sign-waving ragheads. They must have been out performing ritual sacrifices...


14 posted on 10/08/2011 7:15:44 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Muzzies doing the jobs Americans can’t get.


15 posted on 10/08/2011 9:18:38 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Here comes the ACLU.


16 posted on 10/08/2011 9:26:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: La Enchiladita

“On Wednesday, a few dozen people from labor and faith organizations protested outside the Hertz counter at the airport, waving signs saying, “Respect me, Respect my religion.””

How about respecting your contract agreement, filthy goat jumpers.


17 posted on 10/08/2011 11:44:03 PM PDT by Levante
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To: JimmyMc

5 times a Day


18 posted on 10/09/2011 4:27:00 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: La Enchiladita
The story has an unexplained contradiction (which may actually just be the reporter failed to provide enough information).

First, it says that the policy to clock out/in was the result of a settlement 2 full years earlier.

Then it says the policy changed last week.

My guess is the "policy change" wasn't that they had to clock out/in, but was that they decided to suspend people who BROKE the policy.

If that is true, then they are complaining not because what was legal suddenly became unacceptable, but because they've been allowed to break the rules for 2 years and suddenly they are being punished for it.

19 posted on 10/09/2011 6:37:04 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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