Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr

by Brian Mosely
Shelbyville Times-Gazette
August 1, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/748/tyson-drops-labor-day-holiday-for-eid-al-fitr

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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."

Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.

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