moonbeam said:kamalktk said:scott1961 said:kamalktk said:
They get their birthday, that's a personal holiday. Tyson doesn't want to have 9 days and insisted on 8 for whatever reason. The union could have given up the birthday and kept labor day.
The option to remove a Federal Holiday should not have even been on the table. It's not a Religious Holiday just a nice traditional American Holiday.
Well, shouldn't that be between the workers and the management? Some people have to work holidays after all.

<nodding solemnly> True. Corgs has to work weekends and holidays.
Sure people work Holidays and we listen to corgs whine about it, but at least it's still acknowledged, This just seems like they are making it disappear. Maybe it's just me but I like traditions and Labor day weekend is one of them

youngranny said:Very disturbing.... Story HereOutrageous move by Tyson, which should lose a ton of business (mine included) as this becomes known. Someone over there wasn't thinking too straight when they replaced Labor Day, a Federal secular holiday, with a religious day.

If this were a Christian holiday the ACLU would be in court arguing that Tyson violated the rights of the other workers.

bridgeforsale said:youngranny said:Very disturbing.... Story HereOutrageous move by Tyson, which should lose a ton of business (mine included) as this becomes known. Someone over there wasn't thinking too straight when they replaced Labor Day, a Federal secular holiday, with a religious day.

If this were a Christian holiday the ACLU would be in court arguing that Tyson violated the rights of the other workers.
So should they have replaced Christmas instead? Why Christmas is even considered a Federal holiday is beyond me. It IS a religious holy day, not a secular holiday.

youngranny said:kamalktk said:from the article
"However, the 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,"
So the employees asked for it, and were given it.

There are 1200 employees total, 700 of them being Muslim, it was the Muslim community that asked for this.
The union represents all employees, not just Muslim ones. The union did it's job, which is to represent the interests of the employees. From the article, the union rep is not named Osama Mohammad Hussein Bin Laden, but "Randy Hadley". It's telling you're not concerned as well about Chick-fil-a being closed Sundays because of the founder's religious beliefs.

Please take your bias elsewhere.

Sigh.

Even more disturbing..I read OP's name as Youngtranny...

My only issue is the irony of giving of Labor Day. To me, that day is set aside to honor workers, yet these people have to work. Couldn't they have yanked Presidents Day or MLK Day? It's also another day that working parents have to find and pay for childcare because their kid is out of school while they are working.

Kandykornhead said:momgoingbroke said: Couldn't they have yanked Presidents Day or MLK Day?

Yeah right.You may be correct. A few years ago, the policy in my school district was that if a snow day happened, the very next holiday would be forfeited to make up the time. So, it snowed one year and MLK was the next holiday but 'some' in our community complained so much, that the district scrapped the plans to have school on MLK day and instead we made up the snow day on President's day. Go figure.

The very next year, the district rewrote their snow day policy and MLK day is now way down the list of days that will be used for make-up days. Not to worry though, because we only average about one snow day every other year. MLK Day is basically untouchable.

Kandykornhead said:Personally, I don't believe Muslims worship the true God (how's that for intolerance?)

More ignorance than intolerance, actually. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all Abrahamic religions, descending from the same spiritual source. So, if you don't believe Muslims worship the "true god," then you don't believe Christians and Jews do, either.


but I sure don't begrudge them asking to have a particular day off. Tyson Foods can do whatever it wants (or whatever it's shareholders want) within the laws where it operates.

ITA. There's nothing disturbing about management giving the employees what they requested.

Pyeed for mod baiting. Sorry. I took that stuff to PM!!