Eid al-Fitr ticks off Yankees
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/4071/tyson-foods-buh-bye-labor-day-hello-...
This is not my opinion of course... its an interesting article I came across... Its also interesting to read some of the comments at the end of the article...
Tyson Foods: Buh-Bye, Labor Day, Hello, Eid Al-Fitr; (Buh-Bye, America, Too)
By Debbie Schlussel
Well, folks, here it is–the beginning (or maybe the middle) of the end of America as we know it. Tyson Foods is now ending employees’ paid day off for Labor Day and, instead, giving ‘em the paid day off for the Muslim festival, Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. It is the most important holiday in Islam.
It will be interesting to see how Tyson calculates which day it is, since Muslims are never really sure on which day or two it falls until right before–and since Shi’ites and Sunnis frequently feud about when it falls.
Since I keep kosher, I don’t eat Tyson Foods products anyway, but I call on you my readers to boycott the company. It’s absurd to replace labor day with the holiday of those bent on our destruction. Any company that does that doesn’t deserve your business. (It, frankly, doesn’t deserve your business even without this, because as I’ve noted on this site, Tyson Foods employs illegal aliens and trades with Iran, helping sustain the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime.)
Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville [Tennessee] will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility “implements a new holiday to accommodate the … Muslim workers at the plant.”
The RWDSU stated that “the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan.”
Um, it’s Eid Al-Fitr, not this fictional “Iidal Fitil.” If you’re gonna pander to Islamofascism, at least look like you know a tad about the butt you’re about to French kiss.
Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year. [DS: Sort of. See note above about uncertainty of the Islamic calendar.]
Tyson’s Director of Media Relations, Gary Mickelson, stated . . . “[T]he union leadership did request and receive Eid al-Fitr (which is apparently spelled various ways including Id al-Fitr and Eid ul-Fitr) as a paid holiday in place of Labor Day,” Mickelson confirmed in an e-mail to the T-G. . . .
Mickelson said that “Eid al-Fitr is one of eight paid holidays for all Team Members covered by the contract, while Labor Day is not a paid holiday.”
“Based on the contract, the other paid holidays include: The Team Member’s birthday, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day,” Mickelson said.
“Implementing this holiday was a challenge, since it falls on a different day every year and is declared on fairly short notice,” RWDSU Representative Randy Hadley said in the press release. “But the negotiating committee felt this was extremely crucial, since this holiday is as important to Muslims as Christmas is to Christians.”
“The date for this holiday (Eid al-Fitr) is not the same each year,” Mickelson said. “however, it is in the early fall.”
The press release stated there are approximatly 700 Muslims working at Tyson, but Mickelson said that Somalis only represent approximately 250 of the 1,200 employed at the plant, a little over 20 percent of the workforce.
“All Team Members who have completed their probationary period are eligible for all eight paid holidays including Eid al-Fitr,” the Tyson spokeman said.
The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the Muslim holiday, “two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant.”
Mickelson said that Shelbyville’s Tyson plant “does have a prayer room to accommodate the needs of Muslim Team Members.”
“In addition to regular, non-paid breaks, all Team Members are allotted a seven-minute paid break,” the Tyson spokesman said. “Some Team Members choose to pray during this time.”
It’s ironic: a union giving up a paid national holiday tribute to labor and replacing it with a holiday honoring the most repressive and regressive religion on contemporary earth.
The United Dhimmi States of America. Tyson Foods is just a drop in the bucket compared to what we’re gonna see.
its the fear of the unknown
they are mostly unaware of a lot that happens outside their borders
and its easier to manipulate the ignorant and play on their fears
I am sure they are nice people but...
But you have to understand the leverage on society entities like News Corp. have...
Look at that blogger bitch, she spends her entire miserable life shaken to bits by Islamophobia. A year ago Rachael Ray, TV personality as American as apple pie, appeared with a black and white checkered scarf, since those are anyways "all the rage" in Europe, a fashion accessory, in a Dunkin Donuts commercial. Fox News screamed TERRORISM PROMOTION, and the ads were pulled and a rabid anti-Rachael campaign conducted. Most Americans, even the backward rednecks that live in trailers are aware of the invincible grip Israel has on their society and government policy, hence any appearance of a tag clearly describing the product as "Halal" would cause a veritable eruption of mainly Jewish organized bashing.
What can Americans do? They're pretty inert and oblivious in general. When they are faced with any organized protest, any semblance of a negative public opinion (unless said opinion comes from muslims), they shrug, and cave in to demands. Frankly, I can't blame them. If you ever go there, you'll see. Every damn night there is this boring Jewish wet-blanket crying on TV for a few pennies for "homeless elderly Israelis". Despite the fact that half of these hobos are obvious alcoholic bums, the fickle American grannies end up calling the number advertised and give their money to a professional swindler. Then you have an entire arsenal of priests & pastors, and their affiliated TV channels that broadcast lurid Islamophobia, promote books filled with unfounded fear (mostly of the modern American archvillain, Iran), and spare no breath in stating the inseparable bond Christians have with the state of Israel. A lot of unbiased, mainstream thinkers find it a funny marriage of convenience, that overtly public affiliation of right-wing American "Christofascists" (To use a term notable atheist Richard Dawkins coined) with the zionist state. I understand what Israel has to gain, but knowing the nature of these pastors and their organizations, a few shitty shekels every now and then is more than enough.
Yeah I've heard of that from my sister who's had enuff of the US and left since then... dreads having to go back there... surprising though that in spite of their capital savvy nature the Americans haven't yet worked out a model to have halal meat distributed in a profitable manner... may be there's an opportunity there...
And any other deliberately discriminatory, landgrabbing, exploitative corporate entity. As long as I have an alternative. When their monopolies win and I'm left with no choice, I will probably have to submit. Like I did with this damn netbook. AMD was not quick enough to peddle a low-power/low-cost processor to market. Much the way they've been with everything else lately.
In America you often have no choice but to buy "Hebrew National". They, like they say, "answer to a higher authority". And that's the closest you're getting to anything "halal" in many places, unless you're willing to drive more than 3 hours for your hot dogs and other processed meats.
Throw them money! They have shifted!
Once a person with "flexible identity", always a person with "flexible identity".
Yeah Intel's quite the offender, but that's not the end of it, let's remember how their devout efforts sunk the "one-laptop-per-child" programme for African kids, you might remember the handcranked contraptions. Intel and M$ took objection to the AMD/Linux freebie. That's why the world has US$300 netbooks instead! SCUM!
why are you boycotting Intel?
In 1999 Intel opened a US$1.8 billion processor manufacturing plant on land confiscated from the Palestinians solely for this purpose. Why would any sane company build a "clean room" facility at the gates of a desert, I leave it to you to figure out, but in my opinion the motive is clear as day. San Francisco Gate ran a thorough story on the subject which you can find here. You can also read a blurb on Intel's site
I just googled it... I've been in the thick of this business... but I never knew!!
interesting... tell me more...
And her quasi-Germanic second name obviously reveal the blonde hair is fake. This is a KIKE. Sorry to use this terrible term, but in a world of haters and idiots, you have to call one when you see one. I always bought Tyson chicken and I enver knew about this haha. A dollar more, but a long ways better than Walmart's Great Value junk.
She can boycott Tyson all she wants. Most of America doesn't give a damn. I've been boycotting Intel for a decade, but I had to cave in when I bought me a netbook a little while ago. Other than that, I fail to see where me, and my passionate dismissal of everything with the ominous blue logo has yielded any positive effect. The most zionist of multinational giants is all over the muslim world.
Absolutely... its not ethical...
Exhausted today man... the fall i took was slightly bad... but it was funny :-)
So why celebrate something which is not ethicaly yours
I just found the sentiments of the blogger very heart warming... We are so used to the term 'Muslim Extremist'... just wanted to show the other side of the coin as well...
Poor Americans :(
Don you wish to be a Indian now....
WE have both days as public holiday.... :)
And Ya... Versi... lol.... cover fire needed ???? :)
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Man created religion ..not GOD... get over it guys...- FS
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I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/PressRoom/ViewArticle.aspx?id=3021
The union voted overwhelmingly to reinstate Labor Day.
But the workers are still happy and life goes on!
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
What is the problem here ? The union negotiated the deal. The workers are happy. Life goes on !
:-)
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
Tyson did make this decision and then turned around and reinstated Labor Day as a paid holiday. So clearly there was enough of an uproar and a good argument made to make them reconsider. They added Eid as an additional holiday -- which would have made more sense to begin with.
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
This article is old. Eid to fall on 1 October that was a while ago, its 20th Sept this year.
I actually have no problem with Muslims giving up a labour day holiday (learn how to spell it yankees....) and subsituting it for Eid. It means the shop can have coverage for labour day when the rest of the workforce is off.
you are just another fool trying to stir up religous trouble.This is old news and it has been in the news and on here before...get a life. This is why there is a Democracy in the US, the majority of employees now isn't that ironic voted to swap Holidays and it's not a big deal, as a mtter of fact I think a bigger deal is Lockheed Martin whom is the largest defense contractor in the US trading off Veteran's Day for the day after Thanksgiving. I come from a town that has not allowed Xmas trees in schools for the past 50 or 60 years and we still haven't run those darn trouble making Hebrews out of town and like the Muslims they will be around for a long time enjoying freedom in the US.
Have a safe and happy Ramadan, enjoy your family and friends and stop trying to start trouble.
I don't think we need to do anything in the name of God, he's a big boy and can take of himself.
This is not an article, this is a blog by Debbie Schlussel who is a bigoted, vicious, right-wing pandering Islamophobe. Anything for publicity. The town and situation she is referring to has had an influx of Somali migrants some 300 of whom work at Tyson's. But I'm sure the Islamic world doesn't have any hateful people like this. And as an American, I do apologize. Right up until the point where I have to sacrifice the right to free speech.
Mandi
Sounds like you guys are losing ground.
Yes, indeed, we're all bent on America's destruction lol.
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Labor Day is a national holiday of some long standing -- well over 100 years -- as a day of recognition for the labor efforts of the American citizens. It is basically considered the end of the summer schedule and the start of the fall season. It won't be that when it rotates through the calendar with Eid.
While I do not agree with the tone the author took, I do think she has some good points. Labor Day should not be substituted with Eid al-Fitr.There can be other arrangements to allow Muslims to celebrate the Eid.
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM