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Favoring One Over The Other
Plant workers: Fairness at stake in prayer dispute
Melissa Infante sat in her car smoking a cigarette, knowing she was supposed to be packaging meat at the JBS Swift & Co. plant where she’s worked for nearly two years. But she’d walked off the job Thursday morning to protest a schedule change she believes unfairly catered to Muslim workers at the plant, shrugging off warnings from supervisors that she could be fired. “To me, it’s just not fair,” Infante said.
Has the plant made similar adjustments for Christian workers? How about Jewish employees? Buddhists maybe?
On Monday, hundreds of Muslim employees were the first to walk off the job, saying they weren’t being allowed to take a break to pray during the holy month of Ramadan. Break times were then altered on the second shift so the Muslim employees, mostly Somali, could make their fourth of five daily prayers at sunset.
Well, then, wouldn’t that open up 300 new jobs for NON Muslims?
Then hundreds of non-Muslim workers walked off the job in counterprotests Wednesday and Thursday morning. Later Thursday, plant managers did an about-face, saying the new break times weren’t working. Company officials have not returned repeated calls from The Associated Press, including a message seeking comment left Thursday.
Every single NON Muslim should have walked out. Not just a few hundred…..EVERY SINGLE ONE! At every single Swift plant in the country!
About 2,500 people work at Swift’s Grand Island plant, not counting managers. That includes about 500 Muslims who mostly work the second shift, employees said.
Infante wasn’t sympathetic to the Muslim employees, saying her husband, who works the second shift, has had to pick up the slack for co-workers who leave the line for prayer.
Does her husband get paid extra for taking up the slack? I seriously doubt it.
Jama Abbi watched through the chain-link fence that ran the length of the plant. He’d walked off the job Monday in solidarity with his fellow Muslim workers, but unlike most of them, Abbi couldn’t bring himself to return.
“This job is already hard as it is,” he said. “It doesn’t need people to make it harder.”
But it’s ok for Abbi to make the job more difficult for those who aren’t asking for special priviledges, right?
Jacinto Guerrero kept in his pocket a list of needs, a scrap of paper containing words scribbled in Spanish. Breaks at normal times, no religious discrimination, same benefits and privileges, it read. Guerrero said he comes to work to do his job and so should everyone else. “You and your religion – it’s between you and God,” he said. “You don’t need to show it to everybody.”
One cave in leads to another, then another, then another. Here something that will let Swift know where the country stands…..their wallet!
Looks like the Mr is going to have to find another brand of beef patties to cook on the grill!
H/T: Texas Fred’s
And didn’t our government PAY to bring these idiots into this country? At the same time they are bitching that jobs are hard to find FOR AMERICANS????
We are importing Muslims??? and entitled ones at that? Good grief.
Who is this stupid really?
This line made my blood boil!
Jama Abbi watched through the chain-link fence that ran the length of the plant. He’d walked off the job Monday in solidarity with his fellow Muslim workers, but unlike most of them, Abbi couldn’t bring himself to return.
“This job is already hard as it is,” he said. “It doesn’t need people to make it harder.”
Danger Will Robinson America…….
DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT
@christmasghost:
I may get slammed as a bigot….AGAIN….but I do not understand why we allow these people to come in and take over? WHY the hell are we allowing even more to come and do the same. This is ridiculous, and the majority seem to be coming from Somalia. Send ‘em to some Islamic country fer petes sake!
RACIST!!!
I didn’t want you to feel left out..
@TexasFred:
Heh! Yer just too good to me!
How is it that they will take jobs working with pork anyway. That makes them unclean for prayer time. What a bunch of baloney! Pun intended.
@Pastor John:
That’s a real good question. Does make ya wonder, doesn’t it.