MadAnthony said: since I get overtime for it.
And why are you getting overtime for it? Because it's still a Holiday. At Tyson it's now just another day. So now the long time employees who were against this get to have a Eid al-Fitr Barbecue in the middle of the week. Note to self, Tell wife Perdue only

scott1961 said:moonbeam said:ITA. There's nothing disturbing about management giving the employees what they requested.But I'm very sure that does not apply to all employees. What about the ones who were against it? Many like that Monday Holiday to do one last vacation before School starts. But I guess the majority won, Kind of sucks when Americans become the minority here. Well at least Hormel will never have this problemNot to sound like I am in favor of this change, but you are making an assumption that these employees are not Americans. I'm betting they are as American as you and me, just different types of Americans.

discretion said: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? Uh, that's a non sequitur. I said nothing about Christmas.

Why Christmas is even considered a Federal holiday is beyond me. It IS a religious holy day, not a secular holiday.FYI, Christmas is a Federal holiday because Congress enacted it into law. Don't take jmy word, you can look it up yourself.

scott1961 said:moonbeam said:

ITA. There's nothing disturbing about management giving the employees what they requested.
But I'm very sure that does not apply to all employees. What about the ones who were against it? Many like that Monday Holiday to do one last vacation before School starts. But I guess the majority won, Kind of sucks when Americans become the minority here. Well at least Hormel will never have this problem

Any gender and race can be a muslim.
There are a lot of Americans that follow the muslim religion and they can be decedents of the original settlers.

Or in your mind, americas are a certain race and a certain religion?

scott1961 said:MadAnthony said: since I get overtime for it.
And why are you getting overtime for it? Because it's still a Holiday. At Tyson it's now just another day. So now the long time employees who were against this get to have a Eid al-Fitr Barbecue in the middle of the week. Note to self, Tell wife Perdue only

right, because they don't want to try to give in a little to ALL employees, just some. *rolls eyes*

pkny said:scott1961 said:moonbeam said:

ITA. There's nothing disturbing about management giving the employees what they requested.
But I'm very sure that does not apply to all employees. What about the ones who were against it? Many like that Monday Holiday to do one last vacation before School starts. But I guess the majority won, Kind of sucks when Americans become the minority here. Well at least Hormel will never have this problem

Any gender and race can be a muslim.
There are a lot of Americans that follow the muslim religion and they can be decedents of the original settlers.

Or in your mind, americas are a certain race and a certain religion?The article refers to the employees as Somali, not American.

I like cheese.

I like chedder. Never really had good american cheese before, maybe i should get some from the deli and not the pre-packaged ones

kamalktk said:bridgeforsale said:pkny said:scott1961 said:moonbeam said:

ITA. There's nothing disturbing about management giving the employees what they requested.
But I'm very sure that does not apply to all employees. What about the ones who were against it? Many like that Monday Holiday to do one last vacation before School starts. But I guess the majority won, Kind of sucks when Americans become the minority here. Well at least Hormel will never have this problem

Any gender and race can be a muslim.
There are a lot of Americans that follow the muslim religion and they can be decedents of the original settlers.

Or in your mind, americas are a certain race and a certain religion?The article refers to the employees as Somali, not American.
It refers to the Somali employees (who are here legally as refugees, see the other articles linked on the page) as Somali. They represent approximately 250 of the 700 Muslim employees of the plant. As legal refugees, they are presumably on the path to citizenship.

Fortunately, in America people who are here legally have rights.I doubt very much these folks are interested in becoming citizens, otherwise they'd be adopting American values by (for instance) observing the same American holidays the rest of us celebrate. I'm sure there are Somali refugess who want to become Americans, but they don't seem to in the majority among those who voted to ditch Labor Day.

bridgeforsale said:I doubt very much these folks are interested in becoming citizens, otherwise they'd be adopting American values by (for instance) observing the same American holidays the rest of us celebrate. I'm sure there are Somali refugess who want to become Americans, but they don't seem to in the majority among those who voted to ditch Labor Day.
So which holiday should they have given up?
Birthday
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Labor Day

No matter which holiday you choose to give up, someone's going to have a problem with it. Since 700 or the 1200 employees are Muslim, they could easily have voted to get rid of Christmas, since Christmas has the least significance for Muslims, but they didn't. They chose the holiday which most Americans celebrate on the weekend.

Goodwill gestures like this are more effective at ending terrorism than dropping bombs. Do you want to bet that there are now 700 Muslims who are less likely to support the terrorists? When the fanatics call for all Muslims to kill the evil Americans, I can think of 700 Muslims who will ignore the call.