Union leaders ~ stuck on stupid.

Posted by: undaunted at August 1, 2008 5:19 PM

Just one more addition to my list of why I don't buy Tyson products. It's crappy chicken to boot.

Posted by: never_submit at August 1, 2008 5:23 PM

Tyson products will never cross my threshold again. My local butcher will fill the void.

Posted by: dm60462 at August 1, 2008 5:29 PM

I wonder if Tysons realizes that the Eid floats throughout the year unlike Labor Day. Are they also aware that the start of the Eid is not based upon the solar calendar but on the lunar calendar?

Yes I know Easter appears as a different date each year, but its determination is easier

Posted by: pak152 at August 1, 2008 5:30 PM

Lots of very excellent comments posted at the newspaper (above). Seems a good majority of the fine folk in Shelbyville, TN, are aware of the Stealth Jihad.

High Five to the "Union leaders ~ stuck on stupid comment. So very true.

Posted by: boneshack at August 1, 2008 5:39 PM

So what happens if you're a worker at Tyson and you want to take off Labor Day with your family, who would have Labor Day off? Would you have to take an unpaid day off? Would you even get that day off or would your boss say "No way Jose Padilla! You get Eid al-Fitr and you're gonna like it."

Tyson really screwed the pooch with this decision.

Posted by: Cuda at August 1, 2008 5:43 PM

Union leaders ~ stuck on stupid.

Posted by: undaunted at August 1, 2008 5:19 PM

Are you sure petro-dollars did not change hands?

Posted by: Alert at August 1, 2008 5:52 PM

Given the KSA-Clinton-Tyson nexus, it's entirely possible, Alert.

Posted by: undaunted at August 1, 2008 6:04 PM

Unbelievable.

It just goes to show, all the dhimmis aren't in Canada.

What's Tyson going to do when they try to substitute Mawlid al-Nabi (Mo's birthday) for the Fourth of July?

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at August 1, 2008 6:06 PM

Drop Tyson a line. I'm sure their customer service staff would be delighted to hear from you:

http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/CustomerService.aspx

Posted by: Briars at August 1, 2008 6:20 PM

Boycott Tyson, got it.

Posted by: Beagle at August 1, 2008 6:27 PM

It's another step forward toward the larger goal of gradually convincing Americans that we are a nation of Judeo-Christian-MUSLIM values. People, to paraphrase Homer Simpson, "We can't let that happen, we won't let that happen, and we CAN'T let that happen!"

Posted by: Bigshaker at August 1, 2008 7:33 PM

You like Tysons new logo? Check it our ... I'm going to e-mail it to them. I think it would work well.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f182/Etoman123/1162595-H.jpg

Posted by: ethoman at August 1, 2008 7:56 PM

Tyson Foods drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr

Not a single Tyson product will ever be consumed in this house again.

Posted by: heroyalwhyness at August 1, 2008 8:01 PM

Ethoman,

Beautiful!! Please do. Maybe the corporate goons at Tyson's might see the (dis)irony.

Posted by: boneshack at August 1, 2008 8:11 PM

Right. Perdue it is.

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at August 1, 2008 8:13 PM

Crap. And with Wal-Mart brand chicken nuggets having been made too spicy for my children, from whom do I buy chicken if not Tyson. One more reason to detest unions and the dhimmis of the world.

Posted by: Kevin at August 1, 2008 8:52 PM

The union's request to replace Labor Day, of all the possible secular holiday candidates, with Eid al-Fitr is particularly droll.

Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at August 1, 2008 11:58 PM

Hard to boycott what I don't eat any old way.. But I will write them a nasty note.

Posted by: Ummah Gummah at August 2, 2008 12:02 AM

Screw Tyson's, them and the other meat processors have waged war against the American worker for years to depress wages and bennies and used illegal aliens to do it.

20 years ago meat packers used to make $20+ dollars a hour and was considered a trade. Today its around $8.00. And thanks to cheap labor conservatives, Bush and CofC for protecting the meat processors from INS raids,its made meat processing the domain of illegals.

The same goes for light and even heavy manufacturing and the service industry.

As for Labor day, I think its perfect for Eid. Given the way Conservatives have fought tooth and nail to bust unions and depress wages for American workers for the last 20 years, they've made the holiday a joke.

Its time its been replaced with something thats more in line with what Conservatives are about - selling out the country to foreigners who hate our guts. Eid's perfect.

Posted by: waltc at August 2, 2008 12:27 AM

Waltc:

You make a point that's crucial in assessing the economic foundations of the Jihad against the West - one that I hope those posting in this thread who would it turn it into a union bashing forum need to consider. It isn't only "the Left" and its agencies - unions among them - who need to be held accountable for the dismal state of affairs we face. If we want to resist the global Jihad ideologically - and economically - we in the West need to revalue productive work in our societies. There is something deeply wrong - and it isn't caused by Islam in the first instance - with societies who need to import foreign workers to carry out basic services like driving taxis, maintaining buildings and infrastructure, and caring for the sick and elderly because no native born citizen (or too few of them) want to undertake it. Its not the fault of the union leaders that they have these foreign Muslims to cater to rather than American workers, and that American culture and tradition suffers accordingly.

Posted by: templar at August 2, 2008 1:45 AM

It's interesting that Templar brings up the "revaluing" of work, and states that it isn't caused by Islam.

I happen to agree with him, but there is a hadith that's on point:

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

[sahih al-Bukhari, vol 3, #314 and Muslim]

Perhaps us Westerners now view hard work much like Muslims always have -- something to be performed by slaves.

Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at August 2, 2008 6:31 AM

This is worrisome! There is always a possibility that Muslims working at Tysons may poison the food supply. Just as their religion calls them to.

http://jihadwatch.org/archives/021087.php

Posted by: savsiv at August 2, 2008 7:49 AM

This is worrisome! There is always a possibility that Muslims working at Tysons may poison the food supply. Just as their religion calls them to.

http://jihadwatch.org/archives/021087.php

Posted by: savsiv at August 2, 2008 7:50 AM

This disturbs me. Yes I can boycott Tyson Chicken (don't buy it anyway) but this is a trend that is all too prevalent.
The company I work for - US based (the largest chemical company in the world) is in a huge joint venture with Saudi Arabian and thus -our new building has a prayer room. A few years back, when I was working on a project involving another Islamic country, we were told to refrain from eating and drinking in front of the "***'s" (won't name the country) during Ramadan. I am Jewish and in the 33 years I have worked there, I have not demanded, requested or received any special treatment.
When I was a little Jewish girl, growing up in southeast Texas where there were NO other Jewish families, my parents told me to FIT IN. One day, another kid asked me "why did you kill Christ?" I asked my mother and after explaining the Jewish-Jesus connection, she told me that we are living in a predominantly Christian country and in an all Christian town. She explained that I would not get Yom Kipper off from school and that I would probably be served a ham sandwich at some point in time. She said it was unreasonable to expect that the predominantly Christian culture make changes to accomodate us and if we wanted to live a complete Jewish life, we should move to Israel. She said after I finished school and got out on my own, I would be free to do just that but for now, we are here.
At the time, (I was a child) I thought THIS IS NOT FAIR!! but as I got older, I realized that the freedom we have in the US only works if we all agree that none of us are "special" and if we do not demand that laws, customs and norms be changed to accomodate everyone. It is a compromise and if you can not compromise your beliefs and allow yourself to co-exist with others who do not share your beliefs, then LEAVE.

Posted by: PLCinTEXAS at August 2, 2008 8:06 AM

So the land of country music is mutilated into Dar al Islam thanks to auto-genociders like Ted Kennedy and Resident Bush and their de facto open border and anti-humane (to Americans) immigration policy. They should get together and write a book, "How to Kill Your Country--A Bipartisan Approach". http://www.bravenewsworld.com

Posted by: Max Publius at August 2, 2008 9:11 AM

PLC,

That was an awesome comment, girlfriend.

I'm sorry some dumb little kid asked you that mean question about Christ. Your mom obviously had a much better grasp on "love your neighbor" than that kid's parents. And thanks for reminding us that getting along and fitting in is the best way to live with our neighbors. Tolerating and accommodating their demands simply sucks.

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at August 2, 2008 9:13 AM

"The union's request to replace Labor Day, of all the possible secular holiday candidates, with Eid al-Fitr is particularly droll.

Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter "

I was thinking the same thing. One more example of how eager so many on the left are to betray the core leftist issues (the proletariat class) in favor of craven multiculturalist appeasement. Just add that to the list of things the left is abandoning: women's rights, academic freedom, gay rights, freedom of expression for artists and intellectuals....the list goes on. It won't be long before you have many people who fully declare themselves to be secular progressives praying to Mecca 5 times a day.

Posted by: Boston Tea Party at August 2, 2008 9:26 AM

A little background on Tyson Foods. They were one of Bill Clinton's chief backers in his Arkansas days. They funneled large amounts of money to him for his campaign and in return, as Governor, he allowed them to pollute Arkansas' pristine waters with chicken waste. A while ago they were caught red-handed importing illegal Mexican workers to undercut wages at their Arkansas facilities.

Just another treasonous corporation.

Posted by: RBLA at August 2, 2008 9:29 AM

I don't believe in killing animals for food but Tyson chicken is ok - I hear they commit suicide.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at August 2, 2008 9:49 AM

I think most people here are missing an important point. While we may decry when Muslims ask for special treatment and oppose those efforts forcefully ( for example, if someone tried arguing here for that insanity that happened in England to require police dogs to wear booties in Muslim houses), this is different. A government and a private company have the right to make accommodations to their constituents or workers. I am sure Tyson did the math, and greatly preferred not to have mass absences on the Muslim holiday. It made sense from a business point of view to allow them to have this day in exchange for another. To cite another example, in New York City, public school students get off of school for several Jewish holidays. Why? Not because of their great political clout, but for the simple fact that historically a huge percentage of NYC teachers are Jews. The Education Department simply couldn’t run a school when a great number of teachers announced that they were not coming to work on certain days, so they accommodated. I don’t see how this is different. We live in a country where the role of religion in government affairs is limited, but as we all know, this does not mean that the government, much less a private company, need not take religion into account. We should say our fire and ire for real cases of capitulation to Islam in this country

Posted by: esquared at August 2, 2008 9:52 AM

One of the biggest problems in the agricultural and meat processing industries is a lack of uneducated American born workers.

Not many Americans are willing to do the nasty, back-breaking work required in those industries; as most have at least a high school education and can find work elsewhere. Though I did summer work in the pea and asparagus fields during my high school years (40 years ago), I don't believe many high-school students are willing to do that kind of work today.

That leaves American employers with some tough decisions:

Hire educated American citizens and legal residents at the uncompetitively high wages needed to keep them on the job for more than a week.

Hire newly arrived, poorly educated legal immigrants (like the Somalis) at much lower wages and offer them benefits and perks this article speaks to.

Hire poorly educated temporary workers on H2A visas at a similarly low wage scale.

Hire illegal aliens and pay them under the table.

Move those operations much farther south.

It's the downside of our generally well-educated citizenry.

Ask yourselves what wage would entice you to work at a chicken processing plant, and keep you there.

Posted by: PRCS at August 2, 2008 10:40 AM

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080801/NEWS/80801044

It is also interesting to read the local comments on the article.
A lot of people in Tennesse are totally blind.
There is another problem about this nonsense and it is the fact that Tyson employs 700 Somalias refugees . Muslim refugees are brought into this country by churches...
Churches feed them, host them find them a job and here they are complaining ....
Can somebody ask my question ... why are the churches helping our enemies . they should help the Christian in Africa in the Middle East who are massacred by the Muslims.
What is going on ?Nashville has the highest concentration of refugees in the country ,and they are going to build mosques and school .
Vijay Kumar is running in Nahsville and is trying to expose the dangers of Islam . anyone who can help this guy should do it because the state of Tennesse that is already famous for corruption is going downhill.......

Muslims chose states with little or no knowledge about Islam take advantage of the financial aid and expand their influence in the state.

Posted by: Tartine at August 2, 2008 11:26 AM

But somehow the idea is nice: They give the Labour Day to the moslems. That's a good reason for the Labour to get fond of Islam, isn't it?

Posted by: Kybeline at August 2, 2008 11:30 AM

In case you thought the Labor Movement wasn't dead. Labor Day at least gives lip service to honoring American workers. Drop a rose on Jimmy Hoffa's tomb.

Posted by: Noman at August 2, 2008 12:08 PM

Boycott Tyson foods.

Advertise the boycott across the web.

Posted by: Stephen Gash SIOE England at August 2, 2008 1:18 PM

Briars,

Thanks for the link. I wrote them my 20 cents worth (inflation, you know):)

Posted by: Abscedere at August 2, 2008 1:39 PM

I don't believe in killing animals for food but Tyson chicken is ok - I hear they commit suicide.

Posted by: poetcomic1

Poetcomic1,

When may I expect you to arrive to clean the Sprite off my keyboard and monitor? LOL

Say, wasn't it Tyson Foods who had the hijab-N-jilbab dilemma, on the processing floor? Muslimahs wanting to wear full regalia, and have longer restroom breaks in order to clean their little fannies?

Posted by: Abscedere at August 2, 2008 1:59 PM

We live in a country where the role of religion in government affairs is limited, but as we all know, this does not mean that the government, much less a private company, need not take religion into account. We should say our fire and ire for real cases of capitulation to Islam in this country

Posted by: esquared at August 2, 2008 9:52 AM

esquared,

Aside from the occasional Islamist posts that show up here from time to time, yours is one of the singularly most clueless I have seen in awhile. The encroachment of wahhabi Islam into this country, the "stealth jihad" which Robert's new book will be addressing, is fueled by the exact mindset that you espouse in your post. We are not all going to wake up one day and tragically be overwhelmed by Islam where we were happily safe just a day earlier. We may, however fall victim to a strategy of a thousand cuts, and Tyson has clearly allowed one of those cuts.

Islam deserves NONE of the constitutional protections afforded the standard religions of this country. Islam is less of a religion and every bit of an anti - western ideology, a total way of being, that has been at war with western cvilization for 1400 years. The wahhabi brand of Islam, that is being funneled into the US by the Saudis, is an anathema to what this country is about, just as much as nazism and communism. There are good muslims on this earth, to be sure, but wahhabi Islam, as an ideology, is evil. Wake up.

Posted by: Paleologus at August 2, 2008 4:10 PM

For what good, if any, it'll do:

"With respect to Tyson Foods' recent decision to "... drop Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr ...", a muslim holiday related to ramadan and being implemented in Shelbyville, TN:

As a result of this corporate decision, Tyson Foods products will henceforth be neither purchased by nor consumed by members of my household. Furthermore, we will inquire at the various restaurants and cafeterias we frequent as to Tyson Foods sources and will refuse purchase or consumption of same."

was just emailed to Tyson, courtesy of Briars' link.

Posted by: CR at August 2, 2008 4:48 PM

Furthermore, we will inquire at the various restaurants and cafeterias we frequent as to Tyson Foods sources and will refuse purchase or consumption of same."

was just emailed to Tyson, courtesy of Briars' link.

Posted by: CR at August 2, 2008 4:48 PM

Excellent! Now, let the elected officials of Tennesse know why their state is loosing business:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/officials/membersearch/?lvl=state&state=TN&searchlast=&

Posted by: Alert at August 2, 2008 5:20 PM

esquared August 2, 2008 9:52 AM

“I think most people here are missing an important point. While we may decry when Muslims ask for special treatment and oppose those efforts forcefully ( for example, if someone tried arguing here for that insanity that happened in England to require police dogs to wear booties in Muslim houses), this is different. …”

I think most people here are understanding a very important point. We must PROTEST LOUDLY and CLEARLY when Muslims ask for special treatment(s) and oppose these efforts forcefully. A government and a private company MAY the right to make accommodations to their constituents or workers. But I do not believe either of these entities has the right to replace a secular holiday with a RELIGIOUS holiday.

“… I am sure Tyson did the math, and greatly preferred not to have mass absences on the Muslim holiday. It made sense from a business point of view to allow them to have this day in exchange for another. …”

I am sure Tyson can do the math, and will greatly prefer that there is not a mass accumulation of their products on store shelves due to a Muslim holiday. It may begin innocently enough, as simple holiday exchange. But what will Tyson’s math be when they are forced to quit selling pork products to accommodate their workers and constituents?

“… We should say our fire and ire for real cases of capitulation to Islam in this country”
This is a REAL CASE of capitulation to Islam. It fully deserves all of our fire and ire.

Posted by: getrealnow4 at August 2, 2008 5:53 PM

I would imagine those Muslims get a kick out of cutting the heads off all those chickens.

Posted by: TheOmegaMan at August 3, 2008 11:59 AM

In my love letter to Tyson, I asked if next the chicken was to be made halal by bleeding the birds to death, with the company Imam muttering Muslim prayers over them.

Like a lot of people here, I promised also to avoid Tyson Foods products in restaurants, as well as consciously purchasing them for my own table.

Lordy--with all the reading, grocery shopping takes longer and longer to do...

Posted by: Abscedere at August 3, 2008 1:06 PM

You can have your chicken and Eid too.

Posted by: DeadRecknoning at August 3, 2008 8:36 PM

muslims are working at tyson? no more tyson food. Filthy people producing filthy food. None for me, thanks!

Posted by: American at August 4, 2008 11:02 AM

I've avoided Tyson since the Clionton era, but let them know what I think about Eid. Thanks, Briars.

Posted by: MP at August 4, 2008 1:38 PM