Tyson reverses Eid al-Fitr holiday plan
Workers get Muslim day off this year but not in future
Posted: August 08, 2008
12:06 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A Labor Day parade from the early 1900s

Workers at the Shelbyville, Tenn., plant for Tyson Foods – which boasts on its corporate website that it strives "to honor God" – will get the Muslim Eid al-Fitr as a holiday this year, but not in the future unless they choose to give up their birthday as a day off, the company announced today.

The company recently had agreed to a request from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to replace the traditional American workers' holiday Labor Day with the Muslim holiday that closes the fasting month of Ramadan.

But in an e-mail to WND today, officials for Tyson said Labor Day has been reinstated and Eid al-Fitr dropped after it acquired permission from the union to change the contract.
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