Let's Boycott Tyson Foods

[LittleRedToyota]

Originally Posted by Dredly

Based on what normally happens they were most likely given gov't land there to build their homes / community on and that is the local business, they more then likely received a lot of tax breaks to hire them or they are paying them next to nothing as cost of living would be insanely low if you didn't have to pay for housing.

do you have any documentation for any of this?

[NineseveN]

Originally Posted by LittleRedToyota

okay, so your beef then is with the union, not with tyson, right?

Or it could be that they're who they are...just wondering aloud here.

[Qtrborecrazy]

LittleRedToyota
My chicken is with both of them! Tyson needs a cheap submissive work force. The unoin needs dues paying members to keep them going. Remember union membership is dropping like a rock, some thing simaliar to SS. Not enough people to pay for retiement of the ones going out.THE FIX IS IN.


Qtrborecrazy
P.S. Thanks RugerNiner

[LittleRedToyota]

Originally Posted by Qtrborecrazy

My chicken is with both of them!

LOL. that's a good one...i gotta give ya that.

[marinakorp]

Why would I boycot tyson foods for allowing the workers to nogotiate a holiday?

Is it because it is a Muslim holiday?

Doesn't sound like enough of a reason to boycott a company because it actually listens to it's workers.

My company allows for a floating holiday... use it as you will... want your birthday off... go for it.

in their business.. the plant also has to function with a certain amount of staff...negotiate a day off for a holiday... ok... gotta give one up. Might as well be a non religious one to make it fair.

I suppose if they had a large jewish poluatation working ther.. .they would get yom kippur (sp) or channakua (sp) or another one I can't remember... and have to give up another non religious holiday.

good for them I say. support Tyson foods... they listen to their workers and support them.

[NineseveN]

Originally Posted by marinakorp

Why would I boycot tyson foods for allowing the workers to nogotiate a holiday?

Is it because it is a Muslim holiday?

Doesn't sound like enough of a reason to boycott a company because it actually listens to it's workers.

My company allows for a floating holiday... use it as you will... want your birthday off... go for it.

in their business.. the plant also has to function with a certain amount of staff...negotiate a day off for a holiday... ok... gotta give one up. Might as well be a non religious one to make it fair.

I suppose if they had a large jewish poluatation working ther.. .they would get yom kippur (sp) or channakua (sp) or another one I can't remember... and have to give up another non religious holiday.

good for them I say. support Tyson foods... they listen to their workers and support them.

I enjoyed some Tyson Southern Style nuggets for lunch today, and I ate them facing east while kneeling on my napkin.

[Qtrborecrazy]

LittleRedToyota
THANK YOU LOL

Qtrborecrazy

[Jup06]

I was in the Carpenters Union (Phila) for a time and that is the union directly responsible for Labor Day. I can understand if the majority of the workers want that day off, then thats what they get. Just like the majority of the people in my union were Christian, we got those holidays off and double-time pay for Sunday work. Unfortunately since Tyson is a line type of operation, the members will not be able to choose which day they get off as they all need to be there at the same time.

The biggest problem I and most of the guys I worked with would have; Eid al-Fitr, as far as I know, can fall on any day. Labor day is always on a monday. Obviously you can see how that would piss people off.

BTW..you guys that buy skinless boneless breasts, learn to use a knife and buy the bone-in breasts with skin. They're safer, taste better and best of all, cheaper.

[phillyd2]

For those who have never been part of union / company negotiations (lucky you, believe me) this is how it works: The company informs the union that they have X number of days off as holidays and the union votes for which days they want. 99.99% of the time its the usual days you would think of but its the union's call as to which they want.

Prediction: based on the shit storm this story is causing with the narrow minds - Tyson will most likely add another day into the mix so that labor day can be added or they may just add another personal day off that can be taken whenever the workers want. Just a guess.

[RugerNiner]

Tyson plant adds Muslim holiday, keeps Labor Day

By ROSE FRENCH – 2 days ago
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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.

Tyson had previously agreed to drop Labor Day and substitute the Muslim holiday as part of a new 5-year contract to accommodate Muslim workers at the plant in Shelbyville, which is about 50 miles south of Nashville. The decision sparked widespread criticism, from local politicians to talk radio to the Internet.

The Springdale, Ark.-based company said it requested reinstating Labor Day after complaints from plant workers and the public.

Union members voted Thursday to reinstate Labor Day as one of the plant's paid holidays and keep Eid al-Fitr as an additional paid holiday for this year only. For the remainder of the contract, workers will have Labor Day and a personal holiday, which can be used to observe Eid al-Fitr or another day the employee's supervisor approves.

Union officials have said at least a couple hundred of the 1,200 plant workers are Muslim. (700 employees was overstated)

Eid al-Fitr — which falls on Oct. 1 this year — marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
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.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the union headquartered in New York, said he was surprised by the reaction to the holiday change.

"I would have thought that people would have been more sensitive and sympathetic to the concern to the members of our community, who want to celebrate their religious faith," he said. "It's a little disingenuous to say that they (Tyson) were responding to employee concerns. The proposal came from workers themselves."
Tyson's previous decision to drop Labor Day as a paid holiday drew intense scrutiny. In a letter to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette newspaper published Thursday, the local mayor and other state elected leaders said substituting Labor Day "for a nontraditional holiday is unacceptable."

"For over a hundred years, Labor Day has stood as a symbol to honor the working men and women of this country. But for the past few years traditions like Labor Day have been under attack. This time it's gone too far and we, as patriotic Americans, must draw our line in the sand," the letter said states.

Requests for workplace accommodations of Muslim religious obligations have become common around the country, say Muslim advocates.

In 2005, 30 workers walked off the job at a Dell Inc. plant in Nashville after alleging the company refused to let them pray at sunset.

Last year, dozens of Somali meatpacking workers at a Nebraska plant quit their jobs because they were not given enough time off for Muslim prayers, though they eventually returned to work at the Swift & Co. plant.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...lI41gD92EBGQ00