Update: Tyson "Reinstates" Labor Day holiday

Update: The power of the Internet can affect even Tyson Foods. The Springdale, Ark. based company said it requested reinstating Labor Day after complaints from plant workers and the public. Union workers and officials at a Tyson Foods plant in Tennessee said Friday they have agreed to reinstate Labor Day as a paid holiday, and the plant will also observe the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr this year. Muslim civil rights advocates criticized Tyson Foods, and a union official said the company's response was disingenuous. "This wasn't something imposed. It seems that this backtracking would be the result of the backlash from anti-Muslim hate (Web) sites and Islamophobes on the Internet," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for Washington D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. [Reporting the facts must mean that the ARRA News Service ia "Islamophobic." If so, view our new badge of honor. Would a country based on Sharia law grant Christmas to its Christian workers? Muslim can enjoying their holiday in the U.S. without fear. However, under Sharia law, it would be "painting a bull's eye" on any Christian worker who opted to take off work for Christmas.]

Original Post - Tyson Drops Labor Day Holiday for Eid al-FitrWorkers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville 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.” Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year. Tyson’s Director of Media Relations, Gary Mickelson, stated that while the new contract does not provide an additional holiday, as the union claimed, “the new contract includes eight paid holidays, which is the same number provided in the old contract.”Full Story Here: Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-FitrH/T to Texas Fred who comments: " Well, this one doesn’t really need too much commentary from me. I will NEVER knowingly buy a piece of Tyson chicken again, or any other product they make. The *giving in* to Islam that many of us have predicted has begun, what do YOU intend on doing to combat this act? The Islamification of America? And our children aren’t allowed to pray at school but Tyson builds *prayer rooms* for these people so that they can pray twice a day?"

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