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I tried to call Tyson to verify this and the customer rep hung up on me! The Tyson Foods customer service phone number is 800-643-3410 Please post if you get thru to Tyson and can verify this (and you can get thru their "PC Speak")

In a stunning illustration of how long-held, cherished American traditions are being eroded by efforts to accommodate the increasingly vocal demands of some Muslims, Tyson Foods has agreed to replace Labor Day as one of its paid holidays with the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.

The details are spelled out in the WorldNetDaily story below. We encourage our members to contact Tyson Foods and express their outrage over this decision. The Tyson Foods customer service phone number is 800-643-3410.


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WorldNetDaily
Tyson replaces Labor Day
with Muslim Eid al-Fitr
Chicken company: Workers wanted
Islamic religious event recognized
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71218


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Posted: August 02, 2008
12:10 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh


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WorldNetDaily

Food workers at the Shelbyville, Tenn., plant for Tyson Foods, which boasts on its corporate website that it strives "to honor God," will have time off for Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday closing the month of Ramadan, instead of the American tradition Labor Day.

Officials with the company told WND the labor union representing the 1,200 plant workers, including about 700 immigrants from Somalia who largely are Muslim, sought the holiday change in the new five-year contract, and the company agreed.

Officials with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union issue a press statement about the new "contract [that] creates an additional paid holiday, [Eid al-Fitr,] a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan."

A spokeswoman at the union's office told WND no one was in the office today who could comment on the request.

To the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, Gary Mickelson, Tyson's media chief, said there is no new holiday, but at the union's request the company agreed to discontinue the Labor Day holiday and implement Eid al-Fitr.

"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 told the newspaper.

"Since all Team Members will still have eight paid holidays, the change will not affect production," Mickelson said.

On the paper's forum page, readers were outraged.

"If this holiday is that important to them, make them take it off instead of Christmas Day and allow ALL workers to be off Labor Day. Most AMERICAN families have some type of function on Labor Day," wrote one anonymous participant.

"It says union leadership made this request, makes you wonder who runs the union. I guess they are already working on a plan to replace Memorial Day, that means nothing to the Muslims so why should we have the right to celebrate it. Labor Day commemorates the plight of workers and the struggle of labor unions to improve working conditions for American workers. The Muslims will not stop until all of our rights and laws are changed to accommodate their beliefs. This will be a new America but it will be their America," said another.

The union boasts on its website, "Diversity is one of the strengths of our union. … We may come from different countries and speak different languages. But what unites us is the belief that by standing together we can better advance our interests."

The holiday comes at the conclusion of the month-long Ramadan for Muslims, but it not on the same day each year. Officials with Tyson said they were working out how best to address what apparently now will be a floating holiday for the company.

Mickelson said other holidays for the company workers include birthday, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Union spokesman Randy Hadley told the newspaper, "The negotiating committee felt this was extremely crucial, since this holiday is as important to Muslims as Christmas is to Christians."

The union also reported "two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant."

Ironically, the company on its website also promotes a variety of traditional and customary Christian and secular blessings for food – its primary product.

"This is America, founded by the blood of our forefathers and should not be challenged by Somalians, Hispanics, or any other immigrants. If they come to America, they need to learn our language and our ways. They can practice their culture in private if they so please, but not shove it down our throats. Would they let us go there and change there country? I have banned Tyson's products from my home for years because of the illegals they were hiring. I am sorry for the producers that are supplying them, but Tyson's has once again crossed the line with the American people. Labor Day was here long before Tyson's. What holiday will be next to be taken away and replaced to accommodate an immigrant. This stinks worse than the plant," said another anonymous forum participant.

"Disgusting ... appalling ... horrifying ... there just aren't enough words to describe this situation. There will never be another Tyson product in my home EVER!! Bedford County and the rest of the nation needs to take notice. Is this what we are coming to?" said another.

A Muslim website says the holiday is a "joyous three-day celebration" that concludes Ramadan, during which Muslims fast during the day.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the national holiday dates from Sept. 5, 1882, and is "dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country."

Yep, it's true. It was on the local news this morning. Shelbyville is about 50 miles from me.

We celebrate Labor Day if they want to celebrate Muslim holidays let the do it on their own dime....and/or go live in a predominantly Muslim country.


Can you imagine the reaction a Christian would get if they asked their Muslim employer in another country ( or possibly in this country) to put aside a national holiday and pay them to be off for Christmas day instead?

Why replace Labor Day? Why not give employees a choice to either celebrate Labor Day or Id al-Fitr.

Originally Posted by vortex

Why replace Labor Day? Why not give employees a choice to either celebrate Labor Day or Id al-Fitr.

Wouldn't it make more sense to give them a choice between Christmas and Id al Fitr? After all they are both religious holidays.

Maybe Tennesee wants their daughters in burkas ? Or maybe like most of America now they are just affraid to speak out .

I would have thought that state of all places would not allow such sedition ,much less agree with it with their silence .

HERE WE GO

OPEN BORDERS LET EVERYONE IN

Theres some very militant folks in them mountains of Tenn. Hope they are growing in numbers in case the others need them .

We were vacationing in those mountains in 1997 , All of us got lost on a winding mt. road . We had a small convoy of kids and grandkids behind us ,5 vehicles altogether . We couldn't turn around because of cliffs or trees on both sides .

We ended up in some kind of militant complex where everyone had a gun or machine gun . They came running out looking real serious . it may have been good we were all very white, I don't know . We told them we were lost and needed to turn around to get back down the mt. . They just pointed and watched us leave . I don't have an idea where we were because we were lost for hours and most of the day . That was the last time all the kids went on vacation with us .

It wasn't like Islamburg or any of those camps far as I know . But it was well 'protected' !

I grew up in Southern California, I've been here for over fifty years...The American culture is almost lost here. I hope Americans wake up before the rest of the country is unrecognizable.

Originally Posted by Molly

I grew up in Southern California, I've been here for over fifty years...The American culture is almost lost here. I hope Americans wake up before the rest of the country is unrecognizable.

Same for Florida, don't go to Miami or really anywhere past Orlando unless your in an armored truck ! We had a wreck with non english speaking people both times , neither had insurance or drivers license ,both were drunk and one left the scene after crashing into 5 stopped cars at red light . He hit us, then ran into other lane and hit 2 more cars . he got out said ' ok ' a couple times got back in what was left of the car and took off . The girl that was sandwiched between us and the car in front got his tag number .