"Workers at Tyson Foods' poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.

A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility "implements a new holiday to accommodate the ... Muslim workers at the plant."

The RWDSU stated that "the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan."

Tyson's Director of Media Relations, Gary Mickelson, stated that while the new contract does not provide an additional holiday, as the union claimed, "the new contract includes eight paid holidays, which is the same number provided in the old contract."

"However, the union leadership did request and receive Eid al-Fitr (which is apparently spelled various ways including Id al-Fitr and Eid ul-Fitr) as a paid holiday in place of Labor Day," Mickelson confirmed in an e-mail to the T-G."

Boycott Tyson! It's easy to do.

How about this?  Give the Muslims thier day off for holy foot-washing, and let the Americans have thier Labor day?

Or better yet, how about LETTING THE HOSTILE ALIEN COLONIZERS ASSIMILATE AND ACCEPT AMERICAN TRADITIONS INSTEAD OF FORCING THIER ALIEN RELIGION DOWN EVERYONE ELSE'S THROAT WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT!

I will never eat another chicken again if that's what it takes. Tyson can go to hell.

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