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08-08-2008, 01:52 PM
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Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
Tyson Foods in Shelbyville, TN recently made news by agreeing to drop their Labor Day Holiday and adding a Muslim one as the paid Holiday.
They have now reversed that decision and will continue to recognize Labor Day as a paid Holiday.
See the article below;
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...EWS01/80808048
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
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"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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08-08-2008, 02:02 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
Glad to hear it!
Must have received a lot of calls!
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08-08-2008, 02:40 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
what were they thinking, good grief, political correctness gone goofy, lol
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08-08-2008, 02:57 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
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what were they thinking, good grief, political correctness gone goofy, lol
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This is so true, but I am afraid it is just a delay.
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08-08-2008, 06:09 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
I think they should have kept the Muslim Holiday. More than half of their workforce is Muslim (Ethiopian).
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08-08-2008, 06:28 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
I don't see what the big deal is. If the workers voted it in, and it's only for that plant, let them have whatever holidays they want. Maybe the Mexicans will follow suit and vote Cinco de Mayo as a holiday at the plants where they make up the majority.
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08-08-2008, 06:34 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
Really, take a tour of the place someday. It's mostly Ethiopian Muslims workin in there.
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08-08-2008, 11:38 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
Mardi Gras is a holiday down here. The hospital I work for is Catholic. We have fish every Friday. Yay! (Not! I don't eat in the cafeteria on Friday.)
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08-08-2008, 11:40 PM
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
Berk and Rico,
This is America and we should be celebrating American Holidays, not Muslim ones. They are welcome to celebrate any holidays they want in their private life or they can move back to the Middle East and celebrate them with official Holidays.
Next are we going to put Hindu and Buddhist Holidays on our calendar?
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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08-09-2008, 01:50 AM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Re: Tyson Reverses Muslim Paid Holiday
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Originally Posted by CC1
Berk and Rico,
This is America and we should be celebrating American Holidays, not Muslim ones. They are welcome to celebrate any holidays they want in their private life or they can move back to the Middle East and celebrate them with official Holidays.
Next are we going to put Hindu and Buddhist Holidays on our calendar?
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Exactly. This is America. A country that believes in unions. The union voted, the majority at that plant decided they wanted to change one of the paid holidays, and the company honored their request. It's no skin off your nose, CC1. If they want to change their paid days off, IT'S THEIR BUSINESS. Are you going to tell Irish people to go back to Ireland over St. Patrick's Day next? How about we tell all the blacks to go back to Africa over Martin Luther King Day? Your prejudice is showing, CC1.
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