Swift plant sued over treatment of Muslim workers
OMAHA — Federal officials say a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant should give Muslim employees prayer time and not retaliate against workers who ask to pray. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of more than 80 Somali Muslims.
A message left at JBS Swift’s U.S. headquarters in Greeley wasn’t immediately returned.
Hundreds of Muslim workers walked off the job at the Grand Island, Neb., plant during Ramadan in 2008, saying they needed time to pray at sunset and break a day-long fast. Management adjusted the work schedule the next day.
Non-Muslims protested and the accommodations ended. The company fired 86 Muslims for walking off the job and said the firings weren’t about religion.
Our pro-Islamic government is at it again, trying to shove Islam down our throats. My question to the non-Muslims in our government who support Islam is this. Do you have any concerns whatsoever, about your families future generations being forced to live under Islamic rule? Patting yourself on the back for being “tolerant”, does not make the the threat of Islam disappear. You are not Houdini, and this is not a magic show. Please think past the day you are in.
The swell part of this: Employers are going to be less likely to hire Muslims in the future. People: Take note that it’s Somali peeps. They’re putrid with their hatred of Americans next to Pakistanis.
Although it might seem different right now, America is still a Capitalistic society. The first rule of operation is to make a profit. A biz cannot pay everyone, pay the bills and continue operating without first making a profit. 80 Muslims employees pray exactly the same time every day. 80 employees taking breaks during the day could be detrimental to the business. If they sue, they could very likely lose as this amount would be an undue hardship – not unlike a company extending accessibility to a handicap person. They’re required to do so, but not if it becomes cost-prohibitive!
Piss on them. Go back to your mud huts and pray all you want. In America, we have business to run.
Cigarette breaks take longer than their prayer does, and employees take those 4-5 times a day.
As for respecting Ramadan, we have Christmas off don’t we? What about Jewish holidays, yup those are covered too.
The freedom of speech you say your defending actually covers this very notion. It’s not forcing anyone to do anything they aren’t already asking for themselves.
The sad thing is, you know this.
Christians and Jews are not looking to impose a barbaric set of religious laws on all, Muslims are. That is why Islam should not be catered to at all.
If Christians would read their bible they would realize their own rules are just as barbaric but Buffet Christianity is easier than following the rule.
This is what TRUE religion looks like and straight up I don’t agree either.
http://i.imgur.com/4bDU8.gif
The Bible is made up of stories for those times, and Christians are not on a worldwide movement looking to impose a barbaric set of religious laws on all. The followers of Islam are, and that is where the focus of this site shall remain.
To Admin:
All I’m saying is you can very well turn every single issue you have about Islam in America and replace it with the word Christianity.
The difference is we accept Christianity’s nuances because half of all Christians in the country don’t even follow their own rule.
I don’t care for Islam, I think its ridiculous but I find it very, so VERY important to not lose sight in blind hate and understand why it is we disagree with those we call enemies.
Islam isn’t the problem. Religion is.
“All I’m saying is you can very well turn every single issue you have about Islam in America and replace it with the word Christianity.”
No, that is what YOU can do. You still have not pointed out the large Christian and Jewish movement, and I am not going to continue to go around in circles with you. All you are doing it trying to get the focus off of Islam, and standing up for Islam entering Swift Plant.
I really don’t think this government is so much pro-pislam as anti-American. This president is a virulent racist, communist and radical. His agenda is all about ruining America and recreating it as a socialist entity…..a sure-fire recipe for failure! Nazi-ism, communism, islam are ALL alike, they have exactly the same agenda, basically, the usupation of all assets by an elitist ruling class. Read history and you can see that PLAINLY.
Hey Tonto,
They are both.
US Government Funding Mosques Across the World!
https://loganswarning.com/2010/08/24/us-government-funding-mosques-across-the-world/
If you actually read YOUR history you would see Christianity is just as bad, just as violent and just as ridiculous as Islam but it’s YOUR ridiculousness, so you protect it by not questioning it.
This is called ignorance but you don’t care, you don’t want to learn. You believe the hype, that Obama is spreading Socialism.
Do you know where Norway is? Read up on it.. It’s a socialist-democracy, lowest un-employment rate and highest standard of living in Europe.
I am not religious, and the Crusades were the result of 100’s of years of Muslim aggression. What is ridiculous is being concerned about the past than today. Islam is the problem now, not Christianity. Do you always stand up for religions/ideologies that call for your dominance. Or are you a Muslim?
I stand up for the right to believe any crazy ass belief you have because we do for the white crazy Christian too.
I wouldn’t say Islam is so much a problem now as it’s what the media has been calling attention to. It’s always been this nuts. ALWAYS.
I worry more about Fundamentalist Christians in America than I do Muslims.
They scream there cacophony just as loudly and all in the name of freedom.. same shit my friend, different color.
Typo: Their
Point out the worldwide Christian movement looking to impose religious laws on all. The media does not even show the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to the threat of Islam.
Ya but there is no social welfare in Somalia. Why do you think they come to America, then so easily quit their jobs. Deny welfare to those who walk off on the job.
Great idea!
If these people do not want to follow our rules, then get the hell out! Swift did not hire them to pray. They work on a line. When they leave to pray the line has to stop. Makes me want to be a vegetarian knowing these types work at meat packing companies.
It makes me glad to read that at least someone had the guts to fire as much as 80 arselifters for not complying to your lifestyle. In EU it is the other way around. Everyone else who does not comply to the pislamic lifestyle is fired or persecuted.
I must correct you my friend. It is ”our” way of life. We are in this together. 🙂
A business is not a religious institution. If an arselifter wants to pray let him go to a moske. Why should businesses have to incur costs to provide them with prayer rooms and foot baths which are of no benefit to anyone else?
If arselifters don’t like it, they can go to hell. They don’t work anyway. They get jobs to pull their usual arselifter scams. Businesses should be warned. No other religious group tries this.
Exactly. They cheat with taxes like hell anyway. They cheat on anything they could get or what we let them get away with. They gladly put their arses in the air, so how could we not resist the temptation to put our jack-boots there?
How do they cheat on their taxes anymore than we white people do?
Do you have some sort of proof that ALL people of Islamic faith cheat on their taxes? I’m sure you don’t but let’s perpetuate what we don’t know shall we.
Generalizations are easy aren’t they?
Are their no white Muslims? Take the race card somewhere else.
The threat of Islam remains regardless of what they do or do not do, with their taxes.
Religion belongs in one’s home and place of worship, forcing private industry to follow the tenents of Sharia Law is freaking despicable. Liberty and Freedom are being slowly choked to death by liberal special interest groups who have aligned with the Islamic Supremacists. If you can’t do your job based on religious beliefs you don’t deserve said job.
Great find Christopher!
It’s not enough that the rudderless economic policies of the druids in the current administration have halted private sector job creation.
Now corporations still able to make a profit will be sued in the name of Allah to make sure Muslims get special treatment.
This must make Mr. Obama giddy. He shows he is all things Islam and the great Muslim appeaser, while destroying the those evil profits with idiotic law suits.
Would this be happening if Christians wanted time out to pray each day?
The obvious solution, don’t hire any Muslims! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C. Come check me out at http://www.dangersofallah.com J.C.
Whatever happened to separation of Church and State. If I can’t wear a crucifix around my neck in a public school what makes the Federal Government think it has a fight to force a private industry to put up with this crazy cults demands for prayer time while at work. Do we allow Christians and Jews prayer time at work – NO WE DO NOT – these freaking satan worshipers don’t deserve different treatment than the rest of us.
Just move them to the pork line.
LOL! 🙂
> Whatever happened to separation of Church and State?
The separation of Church and State only need apply when it suits those who request it.
> If I can’t wear a crucifix around my neck in a public school
You’re in a PUBLIC school, that’s why.
> Do we allow Christians and Jews prayer time at work – NO WE DO NOT – these freaking satan worshipers don’t deserve different treatment than the rest of us
We allow smoke breaks that cost companies time and money via rising insurance premiums to care for those who are too stupid to quit.
Also we have Christmas and Jews have 7 days of Hanukkah. I don’t agree with Islam but then again I think all religions are the same in their lack of reasoning.
Concessions for us but not for them. It’s easy to hate, it’s why you do it.
You do not agree with Islam, but here you are standing up for it…..
Using your “logic”, the Jews were “haters” for opposing Islam. We oppose Islam because we do not want to live under Islam Law. Burying your head in the sand is what is easy to do.
Islam is an archaic and retarded religion. They should work in a factory next to Mecca so that they can pray as many times as they wish.
Allah can pay them salaries!
Every Muslim should be a Terrorist
Jonattan; i praise your speeking up to these haters. I’ll bet you most of them has not set a foot outside their towns. Sooo close minded.
I would recommend that you’ll travel arround and meet other people of different faiths and cultures, it will enrich your life and get rid of your hate.
Mr Logan who claims to know so much about Islam, i’ll bet you he has never talked to or dealt with a muslim or visited a mosque. it is obvious in his writings to me that he hasn’t, otherwise this hate blog wouldn’t exist. You want to learn about Islam and know who this people that you are scared #4it from, pick up your yellow pages, find a mosque and request a visit. You’ll be exposed to the truth yourself and you don’t have to hear it from me or mr logan’s fear mongring…
Peace.
Ah, just like a libtard – making unsubstantiated claims. Its clear you’ve never met any arselifters and know nothing about pislam.
I know Muslims, and knowing them does not change a thing. The Islamic agenda continues to move forward. Sal here wants to the readers to go to a Mosque to meet a lying Muslim like him, because if he could refute my statements about Islam he would have already.