» labor Talk Islam

Latest Updates: labor RSS

aziz 03:06:10 pm on August 5, 2008 | 0 | # |
Tags: eid, labor, tennessee

With regards to the Tyson Chicken plant in Tennessee that swapped Labor Day for Eid al Fitr, it might be a good idea to drop the PR people at Tyson a line in support. They are certainly getting slammed by the wingers right now for being a bunch of dhimmies. The Media Relations contact is:

Gary Mickelson, Media Relations
gary.mickelson@tyson.com
(479) 290-6111 (206) 220-6871

and I am sure he would appreciate a brief note in support of the company’s willingness to democratically support the majority of their workers’ wishes.
shahed 03:58:57 pm on August 1, 2008 | 2 | # |
Tags: eid, labor, non-halal chicken, tennessee

The thing I find most fascinating about this story - where the majority of the 1,200 workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee voted to swap Labor Day with Eid ul-Fitr as a paid holiday - is that Shelbyville is the least likely place I’d expect to find a Muslim majority among 1,200 employees.