UPDATED – OUTRAGE! Tyson foods dumps Labor Day paid holiday, will now celebrate Eid al-Fitr – BOYCOTT TYSON FOODS

Tyson Foods can drop dead, the lot of them. I don’t care any more. What the hell is going on here ? Corporations like this are signing the death warrant on our future generations.  These vermin scum, the spineless jelly fish, hopeing to feed the alligator so they won’t be eaten last are a bigger threat than “You know who” I don’t want to text “muslim terrorist” I may offend some one. Screw ‘em. They can take their holidays and shove it.  They can take their religion and shove it. WHEN WILL THIS NATION WAKE UP !!  

I say ban tyson foods, make videos of taking the food products out of the freezer, and then  while burning them , tell tyson foods openly drop dead, or go straight too hell.

Just my opinion.

Jeff

This really isn’t a Tyson foods issue at all. It is the labor union who asked for it, and management didn’t care. If you are going to be mad at someone, be mad at the union. First though, you might check which union and if the makeup of employees at that plant is largely Muslim. If so, what is the problem? America is supposed to be tolerant, and crying because Saudi Arabia doesn’t give people time off for Easter has no relevance. If an American company chooses to let employees pick their holidays, I don’t see the downside.

Jeff,

Wouldn’t burning a Tyson product require buying a Tyson product?

I think we ought to have PETA investigate the savagery of halal slaughtering, where the animal’s throat is slit and it is allowed to bleed out.

David,

This is how islamization starts. Look at Europe, specifically the UK. They now allow shariah law to be enforced in muslim neighborhoods. Do you want to be “tolerant” and allow shariah law here in the US? Do you want to see people stoned in the news while you eat dinner?  Or how about tolerating honor killings, and forcing children into marriage ? That is the goal of totalitarian islam. DOMINATION over the entire globe.  THAT is my problem.
You make a good point about the Union, but all Tyson has to do is top hiring illegals, hire non-union workers, and that cuts the problem in half.

Small stones set loose upon the hillside can unleash an avalanche.

but the best part is:

The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the Muslim holiday, “two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant.”Mickelson said that Shelbyville’s Tyson plant “does have a prayer room to accommodate the needs of Muslim Team Members.”"In addition to regular, non-paid breaks, all Team Members are allotted a seven-minute paid break,” the Tyson spokesman said. “Some Team Members choose to pray during this time.”
I am guessing they built 2 prayer rooms so the men and women have their own rooms.  guess none of our American laws are good enough for them.  what if a christian or a jew tries to use the room?

Tyson Foods, I will never buy Tyson foods again, never again. That’s a promise. When you have greater respect for a pedophile, child molester, slave owner, sex maniac Muhammad than you do of peaceful Jesus Christ, then you can go to hell. REMEMBER, I WILL NEVER BUY TYSON FOODS AGAIN, NEVER!!!!!

We need a good photoshopped Tyson logo. Anyone up for it?

[...] August 5, 2008 by Infidelesto Tyson foods responded today with a press release regarding their decision to drop Labor Day as a paid holiday in favor of the Muslim holiday EID [...]

Yes this is the start to muslim rule in America a Christian founded nation. it will soon be islam (notice the small “m” & “i” I give satans people no respect) the Holy Bible says these things will happen, like people being beheaded or denounce Christ. well I won’t be buying tyson any more and I will do my best to try and stop others. Gary

I Only buy organic, not the boxes chicken,  bad stuff to begin with.  So much hormone and preservatives it could choke a horse.  I will pass this along though.  Boycott – the TV Networks (NBC -MSNBC-CBS- that stupid queer C.Matthews -has a boy crush on Obama) these are all for Obama – GE owned and GE is in Iran, to save on labor.  Communist Company – I only will buy American made now.  My husband is out of town and haven’t had the TV on all week, it’s been nice.  I haven’t had to do a lot of things, could get into this real easy.  LOL  I do listen to Fox!  Fair and Balanced.

Labor Day Reinstated as Paid Holiday at Shelbyville, TN, Plant
Tyson Foods Requested Change from Union
 
Springdale, Arkansas – August 8, 2008 – Tyson Foods, Inc. announced today it has reached a new agreement with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an American union, reinstating Labor Day as one of the designated paid holidays under the contract for covered employees in the Shelbyville, Tennessee, plant.  
 
Tyson made this request on behalf of its Shelbyville plant employees, some of whom had expressed concern about the new contract provisions relative to paid holidays.  In an effort to be responsive, Tyson asked the union to reopen the contract to address the holiday issue, and the union agreed to do so.  The union membership voted overwhelmingly Thursday to reinstate Labor Day as one of the plant’s paid holidays, while keeping Eid al-Fitr as an additional paid holiday for this year only.  This means that in 2008 only, Shelbyville employees will have nine paid holidays.
 
For the remainder of the five-year contract period, the eight paid holidays will include: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and a Personal Holiday, which could either be the employee’s birthday, Eid al-Fitr or another day requested and approved by their supervisor.  
 
This issue concerns only the plant at Shelbyville, Tennessee.  Labor Day has always been celebrated, and continues to be, at the other 118 Tyson plants across the country.
      
The Shelbyville complex employs approximately 1,200 people.  Approximately 1,000 workers are covered by the RWDSU union agreement at that location.
       
Note: The Shelbyville plant has 250 Somali employees, not 700, as was previously erroneously reported.  They were employed at the plant via the Tennessee Department of Employment Security.
 
http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/PressRoom/ViewArticle.aspx?id=3021

tyson go to hell, this is America we all will remember this,these jobs belong to americans not muslims, william jasper

Does anyone still understand who and why we have labor day? It is not just a day for vacations, picnics and a day off. It was started by the UNION, kind of wierd that the union is allowing people to vote to take it away from their people. It was started to give workers a day off, a way to THANK AMERICANS for their hard work. I don’t care if they make up a floating holiday or save one of their vacation or sick days for their religious holiday as I do for the day after Thanksgiving but to take away a very important day away from the workers is wrong. Before Unions in the US the a lot of the working people were as much as slaves for many companies, many of the workers worked 14 to 20 hours a day just put food on the table and maybe have a penny or so to save for a rainy day. Labor Day is a remembrance of what past workers had to do to get us to where we are today.
Labor Day is comming up in a few weeks, Thank your Fathers, Mothers and Grandparents for what they did for us so we could have the jobs and the pay we have today.

I emailed Tyson. We have power with Boycotting. hope it catches on. Here is my letter.

 I want to tell you that I am extremely offended by your decision to cancel the time honored AMERICAN holiday, Labor Day for your employees. Instead to give a foreign holiday as a substitute, is an outrage and an affront to our nation. This is America. Holidays are ones that have been chosen and set in place by our duly elected representatives in Washington. This is democracy. Instead you give your American employees a holiday that is celebrated  by a group in which millions of them want to take away those same freedoms and put us under Sharia law.  These muslims, moderate or not, need to assimilate into our culture. Instead you are taking part in allowing a seperatist mentality among them.
 
I WILL NOT BUY TYSON CHICKEN AGAIN. I HAVE BEEN A LOYAL CUSTOMER FOR YEARS. I WILL NOW FIND ANY OTHER CHOICE, AND WILL ENCOURAGE EVERYONE I KNOW TO BOYCOTT TYSON FOR BEING ANTI AMERICAN AND PRO ISLAM.
 

Unbelievable. Do we live in America anymore? Do we change holidays in the Middle East?

Unbelievable. Do we live in America anymore? Do we change holidays in the Middle East?