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Why this matters. My column in FrontPage today:
Eid mubarak, Shelbyville! Union employees at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee will enjoy a paid holiday this year on October 1, the date on which the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr falls this year. And on Labor Day, they will be hard at work, per a new agreement that the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) negotiated with Tyson.The RWDSU explained that the new contract “implements a new holiday to accommodate the...Muslim workers at the plant.”
Since this story has gained attention on Fox News and elsewhere, some observers have called for a boycott of Tyson Foods. But what’s the big deal? The popular blogger “Allahpundit” noted at Hot Air.com that “according to Tyson, fully 80 percent of the union’s 1,000 members agreed to the new holiday arrangement. If a workforce with a huge Muslim contingent wants to make a deal with management to have their biggest religious holiday off, who cares? And why are there rumblings about boycotting Tyson when it’s the union that’s driving this?…What am I missing? Is there an anti-Eid exception to freedom of contract?”
Indeed, insofar as this was an agreement freely entered into by the union, by majority vote, no one can reasonably object to it. One does not require that 100% of the plant employees be Christians in order to give Christmas as a day off, and the same principle is operative here.However, the reason why anyone has any problem with this decision is not because Tyson is not free to negotiate an agreement with its union -- an agreement that has apparently won the approval of the majority of plant employees. The problem is that the accommodation of Islamic holidays and practices abets, however unwittingly, an avowedly supremacist agenda that is directed toward supplanting American laws and mores and imposing Islamic law here. One notable example of this was the refusal several years ago of Muslim cabbies at the Minneapolis Airport to carry passengers who had alcohol with them.
The whole controversy began after a Muslim American Society fatwa forbidding the cabbies to carry passengers with alcohol. Yet in reality, Islam forbids drinking alcohol, but Muhammad’s curse on those who transport (or sell) it has been largely ignored in the West -- until now. The Muslim American Society is a Muslim Brotherhood group, suggesting that the cab crisis was a Brotherhood-led attempt to assert the primacy of Islamic law and mores over American society and laws, in accord with what one Brotherhood operative called “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Tyson’s new holiday schedule, seen in light of the Brotherhood agenda, strikes many Americans as yet another example of how Islamic supremacists are demanding that America adapt to Islam, rather than that Muslims adapt to and assimilate into American society. And since there is indeed such an initiative going on among many Muslims today, the Tyson decision is indeed short-sighted and ill-advised.
Islamic law covers every aspect of life. Once the principle is accepted that Islamic law must be accommodated, and American customs and laws must give way in order to accommodate it, there is always more Islamic law to accommodate. If we do not draw the line somewhere, the calls for accommodation will end only with the complete Islamization of American society.
However, Stuart Appelbaum, the national president of the RWDSU, dismissed such concerns out of hand: “There’s no question,” he asserted, “that there is a lot of bigotry against Muslims and that this agreement has clearly touched a raw nerve among those who are prejudiced against them. However, the RWDSU has always understood that unions are only strong when they work to protect the dignity of workers of all faiths. That includes Muslims. Our union may be the first to negotiate this kind of agreement, but I have no doubt that others will follow our lead.”
Appelbaum issued this statement even as it came to light that while the union had asserted that 700 of the 1200 Shelbyville plant employees were Somali Muslims, Tyson itself stated that only 250 were Somalis. If Tyson’s number is correct, the supremacist character of this holiday initiative becomes even clearer. In any case, Appelbaum is no doubt correct that other unions will follow the RWDSU’s lead; unfortunately, however, it is also virtually certain that none of them will examine the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda before they do so. Yet it is that agenda, and that agenda only, that takes the Tyson plant’s decision out of the realm of simple cultural accommodation, and makes it a matter of concern for all free Americans.
Posted by Robert at August 7, 2008 7:38 AM
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I have a very simple solution: Keep religion out of the workplace.
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at August 7, 2008 8:01 AM
I guess this is a hint that Tyson doesn't have plans to go into the pork business.
Posted by: Spot on at August 7, 2008 8:15 AM
i wrote tyson about never buying their chicken again. do they mind that one family rejects them? not a chance. but if readers of JW should do the same, who knows....
here is email:
libby.lawson@tyson.com
Posted by: theygottago at August 7, 2008 8:51 AM
"The RWDSU explained that the new contract “implements a new holiday to accommodate the...Muslim workers at the plant.”"
Did the RWDSU explain why Labor Day wasn't good enough for Muslims, who, like their kaffir co-workers, got that day off with pay?
This isn't about fairness. It's about religion, and pandering to Muslims and Islam. If it were a fairness issue, Eid would have been an additional day off, for all employees, with pay--not a substitute for another holiday.
I've seen my own union do some stupid things, but I can't believe how short-sighted the RWSDU local and its members are!
When the American worker is so unaware of what he or she is signing, it won't be long until he or she has sold his or her soul to the Devil.
Posted by: Abscedere at August 7, 2008 9:06 AM
I wish I worked for Tyson foods, so I could quit.
Stuart Appelbaum: “There’s no question,” he asserted, “that there is a lot of bigotry against Muslims and that this agreement has clearly touched a raw nerve among those who are prejudiced against them.
I would not work for this retard for five minutes.
at August 7, 2008 9:06 AM
"“There’s no question,” he asserted, “that there is a lot of bigotry against Muslims and that this agreement has clearly touched a raw nerve among those who are prejudiced against them."
This slays me! As if the bigotry were not mutual!
Posted by: Abscedere at August 7, 2008 9:10 AM
Mr. Applebaum,
What you may refer to as bigotry on the part of people who have taken critical issue with this action by both the union and Tyson/Shelbyville, I refer to as ignorance on your part. Ignorance of who and what you are dealing with. Right now they want Eid, prayer room, and who knows what else they were given in the contract. The day will come when they push out all native born and non-muslim workers. Provided of course you don't import more illegal hispanics to work in the plant. For your sake, you better hope that those of us who are aware of what is happening are triumphant, otherwise you may not be enjoying the perks of your position.
Sincerely,
An aware American "bigot"
Somehow I don't think a letter like this would make past the screeners.lol
Posted by: Kevin at August 7, 2008 9:29 AM
Well, I'm not going to scream just because someone's being understanding with his employees.
I don't accept a religion that denies that M'shiach has come, but I'm not about to complain that my Jewish colleagues get Yom Kippur off. And, if a Muslim (maybe a not-very-good-one according to Wahabbi tenets) wishes me a happy Easter (even though I, as a Puritan, do not observe that holiday--every Sunday commemorates the resurrection), I will wish him a happy Eid. After all, being good neighbors may lead to other things.
Posted by: Kepha at August 7, 2008 9:37 AM
Kevin,
It won't, at least not on the RWDSU contact page! They have one of those "captcha" symbol boxes at the bottom, and the last symbol is always unrecognizable. In the rare case that it is recognizable, your email won't go through, anyway. I tried at least ten times, and had no sucess.
This would have been my comment to the Union:
I simply can't believe your shortsightedness in allowing Eid to be substituted for Labor Day, as a paid holiday, at Tyson Foods. In doing so, you are pandering to a religious minority, at the expense of the dignity of the American Worker, for whom Labor Day was created. This negotiation is going to bite you on the butt, someday. Today, it begins with a boycott of Tyson Foods by me and everyone else I can persuade to do likewise.
C.B.,
UAW Local 788
at August 7, 2008 9:42 AM
You want to see bigotry? How about this: Somalis are the most primitive, inbred, xenophobic, clan-crazy, misogynist, unfriendly, sullen, barbarians in the entire Muslim world and now they are 'Americans'. Just ask the non-Somalis (and even other Muslims!) in Minnesota, Maine or Tennessee. As for becoming Americans - they have only the vaguest notion of what a COUNTRY is. One could write a book of anecdotes about Somalis in America (both shocking and hilarious).
Posted by: poetcomic1 at August 7, 2008 9:44 AM
Here's the link to the Union, if anyone else wants to try to leave a messsage.
Posted by: Abscedere at August 7, 2008 9:44 AM
Spot on wrote:
I guess this is a hint that Tyson doesn't have plans to go into the pork business.
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Too late for that. I don't know if Tyson's Muslim employees refuse to work with pork, or not. Most likely so. Of course, Tyson is best known for chicken.
http://www.tyson.com/Recipes/Product/PorkProducts.aspx
Posted by: gravenimage at August 7, 2008 9:47 AM
A better solution: keep islam/muslims out of America.
Posted by: HotSpur at August 7, 2008 10:09 AM
I do not and will continue to not purchase any products from Tyson Foods. This is just one more reason to continue my ban. Aren't the Somalis they same people up in Minnesota (at the airport) who refuse to give cab rides to people with seeing eye dogs or bottles of liquors? WHY oh why do we continue to accomodate people who refuse (don't give me the BS excuse of religion) to accomodate to our customs when they come into this country as refugees? We owe the Somalis nothing. Some of these Somalis were probably pulling the boots off of the dead American soldiers back in Mogadishu in October 1993. Of all the refugees in the world, why are we taking in Somalis?
And yes, keep religion (all of them) out of the workplace and that includes Christmas as a federal holiday.
Posted by: HOV Dummy at August 7, 2008 10:10 AM
There's a lot of anti-Nazi "bigotry" too (count me in on that). The comment aobut anti-Muslim bigotry is an indirect way of implying racism, as if Islam were a race. Reject fascism in all its forms, especially the most incidious form.
Posted by: BunrattyBill at August 7, 2008 10:24 AM
I agree with Allahpundit on this issue. Freedom of contract is itself part of American laws and mores. It would be another matter if someone demanded that a National Holiday be replaced by some Islamic holiday (this happened over here in Germany, I think two years ago. It was appalling that these demands came from a German (far left) politician).
Posted by: plumberger at August 7, 2008 10:28 AM
When the contract comes up for renewal the fourth of July holiday will be swapped for Muhammad's birthday and Memorial Day will be renamed Martyr Remembrance Day.
Posted by: Drakkar at August 7, 2008 10:34 AM
Anyone who has raised children knows that there are some things you just don't negotiate. In union negotiations, giving in to religious demands over secular, national holidays should be a non-starter.
Somalia is a failed state, and has been since 1991 when Muslim warlords like Mohammad Farah Aidid ambushed UN troops and dragged American soldiers' bodies through the streets. "Blackhawk Down" was a graphic illustration on the anarchy and violence that is endemic in Somalia. Although Somalia is a Muslim country, not even Muslims are safe from the violence, and the ultimate goal of the Islamists is to impose Sharia law on the population. That is the reason why thousands of Somalis sought political refuge in the United States. The last thing the United States (and corporations employing the refugees) should do is promote Islam which is at the root of this failed state.
Think of the Vietnamese refugees who were fleeing Communism in the 1980's. Would the United States and its corporate employers enshrine Communist holidays in union contracts to accommodate the Vietnamese Refugees? Would they name their dining room after Ho Chi Minh? I think not. With regard to the Vietnamese Refugees, the United States and all the corporate employers involved in accommodating them did everything they could to acculturate the refugees to the American culture and democracy.
Negotiators should have also investigated the Eid holiday itself. The key elements of this holiday contradict three thousand of years of Judeo-Christian history and theology and impose a primitive lunar calendar on Americans to mark this Muslim holiday. Why should American Jews and Christians enable Muslims in the fictitious enactment of this very sacred Judeo-Christian rite?
Accommodating Muslims even in small gestures is dangerous to our American way of life. Immigrants, and particularly refugees from failed states, should learn American customs and holidays. They should learn to respect our secular traditions and institutions. If the Somalis, as Muslims, want to practice their religion in private, that is their right and privilege in this country. But they do not have a right to impose their 7th Century practices on the rest of the American citizens.
Our country is big enough and strong enough to accommodate refugees, but we should not allow them to import and propagate the very cancer that caused their native countries to fail -- whether it is Communism or Islam.
Posted by: Chris at August 7, 2008 10:35 AM
I guess its too late for my proposal -
http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2007/02/proposed-constitutional-amendment.html
The main point -
Article III
Immediately upon passage of this Amendment all Mosques, schools and Muslim places of worship and religious training are to be closed, converted to other uses, or destroyed. Proceeds from sales of such properties may be distributed to congregations of said places but full disclosure of all proceeds shall be made to an appropriate agency as determined by Congress. No compensation is to be offered by Federal or State agencies for losses on such properties however Federal funding is to be available for the demolishing of said structures if other disposition cannot be made.
The preaching of Islam in Mosques, Schools, and other venues is prohibited. The subject of Islam may be taught in a post high school academic environment provided that instruction include discussion of Islam’s history of violence, conquest, and its ongoing war on democratic and other non-Islamic values.
The preaching or advocating of Islamic ideals of world domination, destruction of America and democratic institutions, jihad against Judaism, Christianity and other religions, and advocating the implementation of Sharia law shall in all cases be punishable by fines, imprisonment, deportation, and death as prescribed by Congress. Violent expressions of these and other Muslim goals, or the material support of those both in the United States and around the world who seek to advance these Islamic goals shall be punishable by death.
Muslims will be denied the opportunity to immigrate to the United States.
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We've already lost and a life of increaseing violence on many levels is what awaits America in the coming years.
at August 7, 2008 10:37 AM
Somalians? Blackchicken Down. The comment about the surliness of Somalians in their host country is spot on, and yes, there are lots and lots of supporting anecdotes. A disgruntled Tenneseean ought to know.
Perhaps an exchange program can be adopted for the union dhimmis. They can lead the Easter parade in the Magic Kingdom, or have a big Miller Beer sponsored BBQ in Somalia for Eid al-Fitr.
Completely blind idiots.
Posted by: QuickHenryTheFlit at August 7, 2008 10:38 AM
"It's about religion..."
No, it isn't. It's about politics, and geopolitics. For Islam is not only, or not mainly, a religion in the Western sense of that word. It is based on an uncompromising division of the universe between Believer and Infidel, and on the need, using whatever methods come to hand and prove effective, to make sure that all obstacles to the spread of Islam, and then to the dominance of Islam, are removed. It is, in the main, about power: the power of Allah over Believers, who must be his willing slaves, and acquire the habit of mental submission to his dictates, as fixed by the texts, and the major interpreters of those texts, a millennium ago, when the gates of Ijtihad were slammed shut with a thud.
And the goal of Muslims in the lands to whiich they have come, and in which Islam is not powerful, as yet, are to remove, slowly but surely, now winning a demand here, now being rebuffed over there, and starting with those that seem so innocuous, that seem to have nothing to do with a desire to dominate but only a desire to "be free from work on our religious holiday."
It is hard for those -- in the union, or at Tyson Foods -- given how little they must know, or understand, about Islam -- and they are hardly to be faulted, given what those who have much more leisure time, and presume to instruct us about Islam, or to protect us from threats, have chosen to learn, or wilfully not to learn, about the complicated multifarious and constantly ramifying nature of the ever-growing upthrusting threat of Jihad, which is merely the "struggle" to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam.
When a Muslim holiday becomes recognized, when a prayer-room is set aside for Muslims (or a room is set aside for "all faiths" and then, non-Muslims are made by Muslims to feel most unwelcome, as has happened so often, so that this supposedly non-denoinational place for prayer and meditation becomes, in practice, exclusively Muslim) it is simply one more tessera in a grim mosaic, or better, one brick in the building of an edifice, the edifice of Islam, as we, the hapless Infidels, are made now in little and seemingly innocuous ways, and from a little thence to more, in the attempt to get us used to the idea, acclimated willingly or reluctantly, but with the sense that "we are here, we are here to stay, and there is nothing you can do about it, and nothing you can do to stop our onward march."
It is this greater understanding, that comes only after long acquiantance with the texts, and the history, of Islam, that has to not only be known, but to sink, deeply, in, that eludes the non-Muslims who, in both the union and at Tyson Foods, innnocently colluded, by yielding to a demand by Muslims, to further promote other demands, not all of them quite so outwardly and seemingly innocent or innocuous, by other Muslims in this country, their appetites whetted, not sated, by the success, anywhere in the country, of any Muslim demands being yielded to.
And so the foot-baths, clearly for Muslims only though presented as "for all," now installed in airports and colleges, and paid for by non-Muslims, will get us all used to the idea -- should we get used to the idea -- that Muslims have a perfect right to wash their feet, in public (I have seen Muslims sticking their feet into the sinks of airport bathrooms, and busily, noisily, aggressively washing them in complete indifference or perhaps with a certain malicious pleasure, at the obvious discomfort of their non-Muslim neighbors), in a country whose mores and manners, and customs and laws, and entire history, entire mental makeup, in everything that makes America America, is not at all Muslim, and that, if its population is properly educated and hence intelligengly vigilant, even about such things as this "little" concession to Muslim Somalis who somehow got to this country, and will -- they can do no other -- demand more and more "space" for Islam, whatever violence it does to those laws, customs, mores and manners, and the political and legal institutions of this country that the Shari'a, in spirit and letter, so flatly contradicts in every important particular.
You have to know about the meaning, the texts and tenets and attitudes and atmospherics, of Islam. And then you have to have a certain mental stamina, a certain willed indomitableness, to see even in those "little things" the connection, the clear connection, to the much bigger things that, if those bigger things were first demanded, would immediately be recognized as the threat they are. But a paid holidy at Eid? Not too many will see beneath that outwardly innocent demand, because too many will see Islam, will talk of Islam, as the poster above does, as only or as mainly a "religion."
It is, alas, far more than that.
Posted by: Hugh at August 7, 2008 10:56 AM
Everyone here knows this is not the end of it. The Muslims working for Tyson will feel emboldened to make demands for more acomodation to their Muslim faith after this. This bears keeping an eye on...
Posted by: Proud Infidel at August 7, 2008 11:01 AM
So, where can one get tickets to the Miller BBQ in Somalia? Perhaps we could all go together, make a day of it.
Ladies welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-4QkBj3l8
Bring your own bottle-opener.
Posted by: undaunted at August 7, 2008 11:53 AM
Boycott Tyson Foods. Boycott Islam...
Posted by: Blanco at August 7, 2008 12:10 PM
Shelbyville Sudden Jihad Syndrome and NOBODY heard about it. This was after an extremist Muslim pep rally too. This fellow 'got the spirit' and tried to rape a woman in a Baptist Church.
http://www.t-g.com/story/1447697.html
Posted by: poetcomic1 at August 7, 2008 12:17 PM
I went to Catholic schools but the public schools closed for the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, no doubt the result of union negotiations and the sizable Jewish population. If too many children stayed home for religious observances, holding class was counterproductive.
My former employer had a policy of allowing people to take off for religious holidays, but that was what our personal days were for. What was Tyson's policy? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, they have less flexibility than an employer whose employees work at desks.
The non-Muslim workers could easily have outvoted their Muslim co-workers. Clearly, they didn't see it as a threat. This country and its workforce have changed, so the Labor Day holiday has less meaning than it once did. For too many people, it's just the last summer fling.
If this move proves to be a mistake then workers can change it at the next contract negotiation.
While my first reaction to this story was negative, the sky isn't falling. People today have less of an affinity to the labor struggles of their parents and aren't emotionally tied to the holidays we have. Maybe they just wanted a change, since school obligations made their Labor Day schedule less flexible. That doesn't make what was done right. It's just the way it is. The times they are a changin'.
Posted by: PMK at August 7, 2008 12:22 PM
Posted by: PMK at August 7, 2008 12:22 PM
Did someone slip you a blue pill?
This contract negotiation and "vote" to replace a federal holiday that has been in existence for over 100 years with a minority religious holiday stinks all around.
As Robert stated there are too many unanswered questions and conflicting stories about the number of Muslims in the union. Since when did any up-front union decide that eliminating a federal holiday was a good idea?
As others have stated, why not allow Eid to be a floating holiday? This multicultural ruse of sensitivity to Muslims is nothing more than the stealth jihad, and this time it was good enough to fool Allahpundit.
Accomodating Muslims inherently implies discriminating against non-Muslims. Let's see how calm and rational we wil be when Muslims decide to vote out the Constitution in favor of Shari'ah, with the help of the Applebaum's of the world, those who are far too eager to capitulate.
Disgraceful.
Posted by: awake at August 7, 2008 1:05 PM
Yes, boycott Tyson foods and send a message to the Union that if they attempt to impose Muslim values on us we will work against them by endorsing right to work laws.
Posted by: scribe10 at August 7, 2008 1:10 PM
A link is given in the posting put up at 12:17 to this story:
Man critical after alleged crime spree
Friday, July 25, 2008
By Brian Mosely
An Atlanta man who allegedly stole a truck in Shelbyville Wednesday is in critical condition in a Chattanooga hospital after allegedly attempting to sexually assault a woman, run down a deputy and flee from police at high speed through Franklin County.
According to a report by Shelbyville police officer Josh Leverette, Francisco Carrillo told authorities that Abbas Hussein, who was in town "for a camp" at an East Depot Street location described by Leverette as "possibly a Somalian mosque," reached into Carrillo's right front pocket and took his car keys.
Carrillo told police he believed Hussein may have been headed toward Murfreesboro to possibly board a bus for Atlanta, since he asked for a ride to the bus station earlier in the day, the report said.
Instead, Hussein allegedly took the 1996 Ford Explorer and headed south, where he allegedly entered Center Grove Baptist Church between Estill Springs and Tullahoma about 9 p.m. and allegedly attempted to rape a woman in the building.
A report by Franklin County Deputy Charles Stines stated that Hussein entered the church asking for water, but the woman present asked him to leave when she became suspicious of the man.
Hussein then allegedly tried to convince the woman to perform a sex act and when she refused to do so, offered her $10 for the act, with the woman telling Hussein "she was a Christian and married and that he needed to leave."
The report states that Hussein grabbed the woman's hand and twisted it, but she began to kick him and he let her go. She then entered the office of the church with the man behind her, according to police records, with Hussein allegedly grabbing her purse, but the woman "forcibly removed it from his hands."
Following a struggle, the woman was able to shut the door, placing her feet on a cabinet to brace herself against the door to prevent the man from getting into the church office. The woman then called 9-1-1 to report the incident, at which time Hussein left the building.
Following that incident, Franklin County deputies received a report that a 1999 Ford F-250 had been stolen from Speedy Sak Market north of Estill Springs, with Hussein allegedly leaving Carrillo's truck behind. The stolen vehicle was spotted by Sgt. Milton Binkley of the sheriff's department, who attempted to pull it over.
Hussein was driving without lights and pulled into Kennith Wessner Ford but, as Binkley attempted an arrest, Hussein allegedly sped away from the scene, nearly running him down. The officer suffered an injured ankle as he dove out of the path of the stolen truck, according to Lt. Mike Bell of the Franklin County Sheriff Department.
The stolen vehicle was then spotted by Deputy Robert Tipps, who also attempted to stop Hussein, near Speedway Market on U.S. 64 travelling toward Huntland. Tipps' report stated that Hussein was "driving very erratic and was all over the roadway."
Tipps reported that Hussein then crossed the center line and left the roadway, entering the grassy median, where the truck struck an emergency turn around area, went airborne and rolled several times, ejecting the driver. The chase and accident were captured on the dash video camera in Tipps' patrol car.
The report said Hussein appeared dead at the scene, but officers managed to clear his airway and Hussein began to breathe again. Paramedics from Rural Metro Ambulance Service arrived, requesting a helicopter to land at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester, which flew Hussein to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga.
Tipps' report stated that the truck Hussein was in at Center Grove Baptist Church was the one stolen from Carillo in Shelbyville.
Lt. Bell told the T-G Thursday that Hussein's family in Atlanta explained the man had been "attending a religious conference of some kind in Shelbyville."
Hussein is facing a list of charges including attempted sexual assault, aggravated assault, theft of property, failure to yield to blue lights, among other offenses, Bell said.
"He didn't seem to be under the influence," Bell said. "I don't know what he was thinking when he did it."
Would anyone sufficiently jarred by this story in Tennessee be able to give Lt. Bell of the Shelbyville, Tennessee police force some hints as to what "he [Abbas Hussein]," who was "attending a religious conference of some kind in Shelbyville," might have been "thinking when he did it" the "it" in question including "attempted sexual assault [on a woman who identified herself as married and a Christian, assaulted in a Baptist church], aggravated assault, theft of property, failure to yield to blue lights, among other offenses."
Help out. Give Lt. Bell something to work with.
at August 7, 2008 1:31 PM
"Stuart Appelbaum"
Sounds Jewish.
It's amazing how much the Jews in this country defend a group that uses a religious text that reads like Mein Kampf.
Posted by: PRCalDude at August 7, 2008 1:39 PM
The fundamental problem here is that an assumption is made which is a false one and that is that Islam is just another religion and thus entitled to equal courtesy with other religions. Until this assumption is no longer held by an overwhelming number of Americans (including, let's see, politicians, academics, media types, poultry processors, etc.), sharia creep will continue and Islam's totalitarian tentacles will not be crushed. No longer viewing Islam as just one more religion is the key to turning the corner on all this nonsense, for America and all of the West. Meanwhile, I'll exercise my freedom not to buy Tyson products until Tyson "gets it."
Posted by: Wellington at August 7, 2008 2:00 PM
Boycott Tyson Foods.
Make sure you write to their complaints department saying why you are boycotting them
http://www.tyson.com/Recipes/Contact/Contact.aspx
Posted by: Stephen Gash SIOE England at August 7, 2008 2:11 PM
Did anyone at Tyson Food check to see what Eid al-Fitr celebrates? Of course not!
It's time to put an end to Moslim immigration to the West. Too many of them are not assimilating!
Posted by: Always On Watch at August 7, 2008 2:45 PM
I'm still wondering why a secular holiday that honors Americas workers was traded for a religious holidy? Why didn't they ask that a religious holiday be traded? Why not Christmas? Or at the very least a holiday that doesn't necessarily honor the worker. Why not Martin Luther King day? or Independence day? I know, Memorial Day, the day we honor Americans that made the ultimate sacrifice protecting our freedoms.
Is it because the union knows that there would have been an uproar? Well, as a worker myself and descended from a lot of other workers (Union and Non-Union) I am in a an uproar.
No Tyson foods of any kind will cross my threshold.
at August 7, 2008 2:59 PM
poetcomic1 wrote:
Shelbyville Sudden Jihad Syndrome and NOBODY heard about it. This was after an extremist Muslim pep rally too. This fellow 'got the spirit' and tried to rape a woman in a Baptist Church.
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Thanks for posting this, PoetComic1. As police were apprehending Hussein, he crashed his stolen vehicle and was ejected. From the article:
"The report said Hussein appeared dead at the scene, but officers managed to clear his airway and Hussein began to breathe again. Paramedics from Rural Metro Ambulance Service arrived, requesting a helicopter to land at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester, which flew Hussein to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga."
Despite Hussein's actions, officers and medical personel worked hard to save his life. Could you imagine anyone trying to save the life of an infidel in Somalia who had assaulted a woman in a mosque? Inconceivable.
So what was Hussein, who was from Atlanta, doing in Shelbyville? He was "attending a religious conference of some kind." What sort of "religious conference" might that be, where he was so inspired as to find a Baptist church and try to rape a woman there?
"He didn't seem to be under the influence," [police Lt.] Bell said. "I don't know what he was thinking when he did it."
Well, he might have just been crazy. Or he may well have been "under the influence" of Islam.
at August 7, 2008 3:26 PM
Hey, if the union members voted and approved to celebrate the primitive delusions of a narcissistic, supremacist, misogynistic, pedophile, warlord...that democracy in action.
If another union votes to honor Ronald Reagan's birthday by exchanging it with MLK's birthday, I suppose it will be equally accepted so long as the majority of union members approve.
Posted by: Xero G at August 7, 2008 3:37 PM
Well, now you're just talking crazy, Xero.
Posted by: undaunted at August 7, 2008 3:43 PM
They gotta go thank you for the tyson e mail i as a loyal tyson food fan have joined you in the boycott good job brother its time to just say no to islamthey should learn to adjust to us not us to them and yea they gotta go along with the willing dhimmis that are helping them start with bush obama clintons tysin and union management.
Posted by: spcbat at August 7, 2008 3:59 PM
awake,
What's your problem? I'm not happy this was done but there is still no denying we live in a FREE COUNTRY. This was a contract between workers and their employer. It wasn't dictated by government. Holiday or not, the country doesn't shut down on Labor Day.
Maybe the holiday has been here for a hundred years but this country isn't what it was one hundred years ago and that is even if we had never even heard of Islam.
Get real. People don't celebrate the history of organized labor. They don't even think about it. They're off to the beach or getting their kids ready for school, if school hasn't started already.
Many people WORK on Labor Day. They get another day off somewhere else on the calendar in compensation. Are they being disrespectful?
If this was an action of government that would be a different matter. It wasn't.
"Accomodating Muslims inherently implies discriminating against non-Muslims."
What are you talking about? Who is being discriminated against?
How is anyone discriminating against people who VOTED FOR THIS IN THEIR CONTRACT?
They could have turned it down. They didn't. Who are we to judge them?
Posted by: PMK at August 7, 2008 3:59 PM
This is the same Tyson plant that is notorious for hiring illegal aliens. Supervisors at this plant have gone to jail for subverting the US laws and participating in fraud to hire workers they know are illegal aliens. Shelbyville is a small town south of Nashville, TN and radio host Steve Gill and Phil Valentine have discussed this situation extensively. Both hosts are on the web.
Tyson would sell-out the US security in a second if it sold one more chicken.
Posted by: tscottme at August 7, 2008 4:03 PM
"He didn't seem to be under the influence," Bell said. "I don't know what he was thinking when he did it."
Churchill knew: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
Nah, that wouldn't be sensitive.
There's a fascinating Leftist sensitivity fest at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Winston_Churchill "> wickerpedia over this quote, with some debate over whether or not it appeared in the 1902 edition of The River War.
Reminds me of their "objectivity" about global warming:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/08/opinion/main4241293.shtml "> National Review: Wikipedia Is A Stunning Example Of How The Propaganda Machine Works
at August 7, 2008 4:04 PM
National Review: Wikipedia Is A Stunning Example Of How The Propaganda Machine Works
at August 7, 2008 4:09 PM
Posted by: PMK at August 7, 2008 3:59 PM
The blue pill reference is to accentuate the fact that you know, or at least should know better.
I reiterate, can you think of an example before where any union has decided to forgo a hundred year old federal holiday in favor of a minority religious holiday?
The number of Somali Muslims in the union, although they are conflicting, and your support of the vote based on simple majority, is quite frankly, amazing. So the 51/49 rule is just tough luck for the infidel in your estimation?
What the non-Muslims do or did on Labor Day is irrelevant, as if Eid is somehow more respectable in your estimation since it is an Islamic holiday.
John Esposito and his little Saudi-funded academy at Georgetown isn't a government action either, so maybe we should back off there as well, by your logic, or lackthereof.
Posted by: awake at August 7, 2008 5:30 PM
>>I wrote Tyson about never buying their chicken again. Do they mind that one family rejects them? Not a chance. But if readers of JW should do the same, who knows.... theygottago
I did the same. So, that's two families. And you can bet there's a lot more. As I said to the Tyson rep - "Pilgrim's Pride, here we come! Especially for Labor Day!"
Posted by: darcy at August 7, 2008 6:51 PM
There are two aspects to this. One is the demand that a Muslim holidy be recognized, and workers given time off. Are they, by the way, given time off, in the middle of a work day, to go to some location, to prostrate themselves on the ground (presumably they are covered in all kinds of chicken bits and blood), and then to come back to work, while the non-Muslim workers are required to continue, without similar breaks?
The second is the Muslim insistence that they not recognize any of the holidys of the kufaar. They are given strict instructions, in their manuals of what is prohibited and what commanded, not to wish Infidels Christmas or Easter or other, similar greetings, and there have been fatwas explaining why a good Muslim cannot possibly celebrate Thanksgiving or Independence Day. I assume that Labor Day would come under the same prohibition. All the more reason then, to put Muslims to the test, to see if they indeed will not recognize, much less to share in the observation, of either national holidays, or in religious holidays, such as Christmas, that are widely observed, and with observances often deliberately light on the religious aspect, so as to have acquired, in a sense, the status of a national holiday.
Posted by: Hugh at August 7, 2008 7:50 PM
I just wrote an email to Tyson Foods, and told them what I think about them catering to those who are here to undermine us and destroy us from within.
I honestly cannot believe that so much appeasing is going on in our country,a country that I love more than my life even though it's not perfect.
I cannot believe that our country is infested with this cancer,how can we be cured from this curse??
George Washington and the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves as we speak,they fought so hard for this land and the rights that we now have,and the traitors who are all around us in the form of politicians,wall street,big bussiness,e.t.c are selling the rest of us and this great country down the river.
Shame on them!!!
Posted by: patriot1776 at August 7, 2008 8:28 PM
Several days ago I made a phone call to Tyson to express my outrage at their having chosen to recognise a Muslim holiday for some of their workers. I had received an email from actforamerica.com saying that Tyson had replaced Labor Day with an Islamic holiday. When I voiced my disapproval, the customer service representative to whom I was speaking denied that Tyson had replaced Labor Day with an Islamic holiday; he said that all Tyson had done was to give the Muslim employees Labor Day off without pay but I doubted that he was telling the truth. When I asked him if he knew anything about Islam or if he had ever read the Koran, he practically hung up in my face. Case closed!
Posted by: nightlight at August 7, 2008 9:05 PM
"How is anyone discriminating against people who VOTED FOR THIS IN THEIR CONTRACT?"
Here's the thing about labor unions and contract negotiations:
First, if the State in question is a "right to work" State (as is my State, Fl), no employee is obliged to join the union, if any, which represents the employees of a company. Even so, any and all employees who belong to an established "bargaining unit" will receive all benefits negotiated by the union, without having to pay a dime, in union dues.
So, this makes the number of Muslim union members a moot point. A couple of well-placed members favoring the change would be the only thing necessary to start the ball rolling, on an Eid vs Labor Day holiday.
It's important to remember that this questionable action wasn't the only issue on the table, when the contract was being negotiated. The local may have had bigger issues at stake, and the only way to obtain what the majority of the membership wanted, was to agree to this compromise, which seems only to reinforce the idea that Tyson Foods is a "diversity" oriented workplace. It's a PC feather in Tyson's cap.
I don't see any advantage gained by the union on this point, unless it was a ploy to get Muslims to join the union ("Look what we've already done for you, my brothers and sisters...")
In any case, a union contract is a whole cloth. Members are not voting on a contract, issue by issue, but on the contract as a whole. It would be interesting to know what the local gained, by sacrificing Labor Day to Eid. It's all too possible that only a minority approved the change, and it was accepted by the majority for some gain in pay, labor grade, new benefits...Who knows?
Have I done a turnabout, on my failed email to the union? Nope. They made a bad decision, but maybe it was for a decent reason. I hope so.
I'm a union member, and I've seen my union do some really stupid-assed things. I watched our cafeteria staff voted right out of a job, in favor of an outside contractor. I stopped attending meetings, on the day the membership voted the same fate to our Security guards.
If veteran, inside Security had been in place--men and women with a vested interest in the safety of the company's employees--things like the massacre at the Meridian plant wouldn't have happened. Sorry, I digress.
Maybe I should have said things aren't always as they seem, within a labor union, and left it at that.
Posted by: Abscedere at August 8, 2008 12:59 AM
poetcomic1
I followed your link, too. I see Hugh did also.
The comments to the article were fascinating - not least because every single extra example they contained, of discourteous, contemptuous and downright criminal [Somali] Muslim conduct toward Kafir in Tennessee, as reported by disgruntled American kafir who had been on the receiving end of such conduct, involved exactly the sort of thing that Muslims are explicitly taught - by Quran, Sira and Hadith, by the pact of Omar, and by the interpreters of same - to do to kafir, always and everywhere.
One commenter had even noticed that the [Musllm] Somali in an apartment building had treated the [presumably, non-Muslim] black lady also resident there, even *worse* than they had treated white Americans like himself. He did not, of course, know what *I* know - that Muslims are programmed to view black people (non-Muslim black people, especially) as slaves.
I felt like someone who has got hold of the Rosetta Stone. I could have predicted everything that the angry kafir of Tennessee were complaining about - every piquant detail, including the business of taking up the footpath, so as to 'push them [kafir] to the narrowest part of the road', as per Bukhari and Muslim, 8th century.
I thought of posting a comment, but the registration process didn't seem to be set up to readily accommodate foreigners - no provision for 'country of origin'.
Here's what I wanted to post at the Times-Gazette.
"Everyone commenting above who has experienced extreme discourtesy and aggression from Muslims, or witnessed their sense of entitlement and their total disregard for American laws and customs, and for common courtesy - please go to Mr Robert Spencer's website, jihadwatch.org.
"There you will learn that this whole thing is not about 'race' or 'ethnicity'; it is about the Jihad of Muslims against non-Muslims.
"Islam divides the world into Muslims and Kafir (Unbelievers). Muslims are taught that they owe decent behaviour ONLY to fellow Muslims (and they're not very good even at that, to judge from their continual infighting); they are explicitly TAUGHT by their sacred texts, and all the interpreters thereof, to show contempt and aggression toward non-Muslims, to humiliate us, never to befriend us (except feigningly, for their own advantage), to make war on us by all possible means.
e.g. "The Koran Surah 48 v 29 says: "those who follow him [Mohammed] are RUTHLESS to the unbelievers but merciful to one another".
"See this link at which may be read a long Muslim essay expounding on how all non-Muslims are to be hated and despised and humiliated.
http://salafiyyah-jadeedah.tripod.com/wala_wal_bara/Alee_Imran.htm
- Al-Wala'u wa Al-Bara' Revealed in Al-'Imran (1/2)
by Khaalid al-Ghareeb
.
"One of their sacred books even comes right out and tells them to push us "into the narrowest part of the street'.
"They are also taught a boundless supremacism and total sense of entitlement: we non-Muslims are SUPPOSED to grovel to Muslims, flatter them, be their slaves, and pay them tribute - hence their battening on Welfare.
"Their religion explicitly teaches them that they are entitled to rob, rape, assault, insult, enslave, kill, and generally use and abuse us non-Muslim Untermenschen, with complete impunity - for this is the just punishment we deserve to suffer from them, if we refuse to embrace their hellish religion.
"Everything they've been inflicting on you is exactly what their 'sacred books' - i.e. war-book, their mein kampf - teach them to do. Don't believe me? Go look it up. Google Bill Warner, Centre for the Study of Political Islam."
So: prettyplease, poetcomic1, if *you* are registered to comment at the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, and if you endorse what I've just written, would you be willing to pass it on to the comments field at the Times-Gazette?
at August 8, 2008 1:45 AM
A few observations to the story posted by poetcomic1.
First: the Muslim bandit/ wannabe rapist is "in a critical condition".
Maybe he'll die. Good riddance - he brought it on himself. Question: if he *does* die, will there be Muslim riots in Shelbyville? After all: the pretext for the massive Paris riots by Muslims, was the death of a couple of young Muslim criminals who were being pursued by the police.
Second: the lady he tried to rape was no cringing dhimmi - she successfully fought him off.
"The report states that Hussein grabbed the woman's hand and twisted it, but she began to kick him and he let her go.
"She then entered the office of the church with the man behind her, according to police records, with Hussein allegedly grabbing her purse, but the woman "forcibly removed it from his hands."
"Following a struggle, the woman was able to shut the door, placing her feet on a cabinet to brace herself against the door to prevent the man from getting into the church office."
Good on her! Yay for Tennessee and Center Grove Baptist Church! If there's someone here from Tennessee, I do think that a bouquet of flowers, a box of chocolates, and a copy of one of Mr Spencer's fine scholarly works, with a suitable covering letter, should be sent to this lady c/o her pastor. She deserves the Isabella of Castile Counter-Jihad Award 2008, Citizens' Division (female).
Third point: this freelance jihadist/ ghazi raider seems to have tried to run over a policeman.
"The stolen vehicle was spotted by Sgt. Milton Binkley of the sheriff's department, who attempted to pull it over.
"Hussein was driving without lights and pulled into Kennith Wessner Ford but, as Binkley attempted an arrest, Hussein allegedly sped away from the scene, nearly running him down.
"The officer suffered an injured ankle as he dove out of the path of the stolen truck, according to Lt. Mike Bell of the Franklin County Sheriff Department."
No wonder they're throwing the book at him.
I hope American Jihadwatchers, especially those who may live in Tennessee, will follow Our Hugh's advice, given in one of the above postings, and communicate with "Lt. Mike Bell of the Franklin County Sheriff Department". Congratulate him and his colleagues on their enforcement of American law.
And tell them to find out, if they possibly can, whether he had indeed been attending a mosque just prior to his little jihad raid, and which mosque it was, and what is in their library. In fact: it would doubtless be very interesting to search that mosque.
Our businesses and academies and union leaders are on the frontline of the stealth jihad. But in the meantime, it is our Sergeant and Lieutenant Plods who are facing up to the informal Combat Jihad [rape, theft, violence, and total disregard for every form of kafir law, from traffic regulations on upward, and for the representatives of that law] that is carried out by more than one Abbas Hussein and his ilk, within the lands of the kafir.
Best of all: is there a Tennessee jihadwatcher here, who might volunteer to buy nice new copies of 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades', and of 'Onward Muslim Soldiers', with suitable covering letter that includes the jihadwatch web address, and present them to Lt Mike Bell, for the general edification of the Franklin County police force?
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at August 8, 2008 2:15 AM
Tyson's muslim employees bring a special ingredient to the kuffar - Tuberculosis.
Tyson Foods Brings Latent Tuberculosis to Emporia, Kansas
Posted by: DJM at August 8, 2008 6:59 AM
I wrote to Tyson earlier this week when I learned of this "holiday". That I would no longer use their product and make sure friends and relatives did the same did not seem to phase them.
I just got some explaination that those who want Labor Day can still have it....I can't remember what all it said. But it was a pretty lame response.
From all the responses that I've heard so far that people have received, it seems that Tyson doesn't care that this move could cost them in the public eye.
Posted by: samhein at August 8, 2008 8:17 AM
Labor Day Reinstated as Paid Holiday at Shelbyville, TN, Plant
Tyson Foods Requested Change from Union
Springdale, Arkansas – August 8, 2008 - Tyson Foods, Inc. announced today it has reached a new agreement with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an American union, reinstating Labor Day as one of the designated paid holidays under the contract for covered employees in the Shelbyville, Tennessee, plant.
Tyson made this request on behalf of its Shelbyville plant employees, some of whom had expressed concern about the new contract provisions relative to paid holidays. In an effort to be responsive, Tyson asked the union to reopen the contract to address the holiday issue, and the union agreed to do so. The union membership voted overwhelmingly Thursday to reinstate Labor Day as one of the plant’s paid holidays, while keeping Eid al-Fitr as an additional paid holiday for this year only. This means that in 2008 only, Shelbyville employees will have nine paid holidays.
For the remainder of the five-year contract period, the eight paid holidays will include: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and a Personal Holiday, which could either be the employee’s birthday, Eid al-Fitr or another day requested and approved by their supervisor.
This issue concerns only the plant at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Labor Day has always been celebrated, and continues to be, at the other 118 Tyson plants across the country.
The Shelbyville complex employs approximately 1,200 people. Approximately 1,000 workers are covered by the RWDSU union agreement at that location.
Note: The Shelbyville plant has 250 Somali employees, not 700, as was previously erroneously reported. They were employed at the plant via the Tennessee Department of Employment Security.
http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/PressRoom/ViewArticle.aspx?id=3021
at August 8, 2008 10:45 AM
"...as if Islam is a race".
It is a race, a race of barbarians.
I do agree with you, though.
at August 8, 2008 1:20 PM
Dumbledore's Army wrote:
I felt like someone who has got hold of the Rosetta Stone. I could have predicted everything that the angry kafir of Tennessee were complaining about - every piquant detail, including the business of taking up the footpath, so as to 'push them [kafir] to the narrowest part of the road', as per Bukhari and Muslim...
.............................
Dumbledore's Army, that's exactly how I feel so much of the time.
I read an article about some hideous act of Jihad somewhere in the world, and am not surprised when it is ascribed to some local political dispute, even when the perpetrators are yelling "Allahu Akbar!", or when local police assure us that some act of "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" has nothing to do with terrorism, and the guy's relatives claim that they are shocked, since he was such a good boy, and, in fact, had become more religious lately. Oh, but he did seem "depressed" and may have been mentally ill.
Or when Jihadists claim that everyone, from Homeland Security to prison guards to members of small local civilian police forces, has tortured them.
And how Infidels all over the world, even ones who likely have no notion whatever of Islam, seem intent on burning Qur'ans, and throwing them on the floor, and flushing them down toilets; and insulting Mohammed in every conceivable way. For some reason, Infidels with successful businesses, or those who have unrelated disputes with Muslims, or attractive daughters, seem even more prone to committing "blasphemy".
And yet so many Infidels seem as clueless as ever. I have learned a great deal here at JW, but I had begun to see a lot of these patterns--even before 9/11, just from following the MSM--even if I was less aware of the religious and historic underpinnings of those patterns.
Also, I join in lauding the lady at the Center Gove Baptist Church in Shelbyville. I doubt she has any idea what a "dhimmi" is, but nonetheless she is a great example of anti-dhimmitude--she refused to be a victim. Her courage is inspiring.
at August 8, 2008 1:47 PM
Whoohoo,, another Infidel Victory on this folks. ACT for America sent us a action alert and we got Tyson Food's phones ringing off the hook.
Labour Day holiday, is NOW re-instated,,
solsticewitch13
we ain't takin their crap anymore!!
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Labor Day Reinstated At Tyson Foods!!
Your Calls and Emails Made a Difference!
Dear Infidel,
Chalk up another victory for people power.
When we sent you the email informing you of the Tyson Foods union agreement replacing Labor Day with Eid al-Fitr, so many of you contacted the company that we were told Tyson stopped answering customer service calls, diverting them to voice mail.
Thank you for taking action !!
Now this morning Tyson Foods has announced that it went back to the union and reached a new agreement that reinstates Labor Day. Clearly, the grassroots pressure and negative publicity “encouraged” Tyson Foods to do the right thing. Just as many of you told us you would no longer buy Tyson Foods because of the original agreement, let’s now reward Tyson Foods for taking this action by buying their products.
And remember this – other companies are watching what just happened.
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Labor Day Reinstated as Paid Holiday at Shelbyville, TN, Plant
Tyson Foods Requested Change from Union
Springdale, Arkansas – August 8, 2008 - Tyson Foods, Inc. announced today it has reached a new agreement with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an American union, reinstating Labor Day as one of the designated paid holidays under the contract for covered employees in the Shelbyville, Tennessee, plant.
Tyson made this request on behalf of its Shelbyville plant employees, some of whom had expressed concern about the new contract provisions relative to paid holidays. In an effort to be responsive, Tyson asked the union to reopen the contract to address the holiday issue, and the union agreed to do so. The union membership voted overwhelmingly Thursday to reinstate Labor Day as one of the plant’s paid holidays, while keeping Eid al-Fitr as an additional paid holiday for this year only. This means that in 2008 only, Shelbyville employees will have nine paid holidays.
For the remainder of the five-year contract period, the eight paid holidays will include: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and a Personal Holiday, which could either be the employee’s birthday, Eid al-Fitr or another day requested and approved by their supervisor.
This issue concerns only the plant at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Labor Day has always been celebrated, and continues to be, at the other 118 Tyson plants across the country.
The Shelbyville complex employs approximately 1,200 people. Approximately 1,000 workers are covered by the RWDSU union agreement at that location.
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at August 8, 2008 3:39 PM
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