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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Here comes the ACLU.


16 posted on 10/08/2011 9:26:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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“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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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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