SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.
According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a new 5-year contract at the plant included the change to accommodate Muslim workers at the plant.
Tyson's director of media relations Gary Mickelson said the contract includes eight paid holidays — the same number as the old contract.
Eid al-Fitr — which falls on Oct. 1 this year — marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Union leaders say implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.
Whats next to go, CHRISTMAS! This is crazy. Labor Day is a national holiday. EID al Fitr means nothing to Americans. Why is it we have to change are laws to suit Muslim? If they do not like are countries laws then they have the choice of not to come here. We should not change anything for any immigrant's! This is America last time i checked not IRAN! Maybe we should change are laws for stealing like in IRAN that if you steal anything they cut of your hand!
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