XPost: alt.atheism, sac.politics, alt.religion.islam   
   XPost: alt.politics   
   From: yb@nyetsissies.ru   
      
   In early December, 200 Muslim employees walked off the job at a   
   meat-processing plant in Colorado to protest a prayer dispute.   
   Tuesday, 190 of them were fired for refusing to return to work.   
      
   Now, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has   
   stepped in to try to help them get their jobs back.   
      
   As reported by The Blaze, Cargill Meat Solutions made the   
   decision to fire the employees – mostly Muslim immigrants from   
   Somalia – after they refused to return to work at the Fort   
   Morgan plant, claiming they were denied prayer breaks.   
      
   According to KSTP-TV, the company said in a statement:   
      
   “Cargill makes every reasonable attempt to provide religious   
   accommodation to all employees based on our ability to do so   
   without disruption to our beef processing business at Fort   
   Morgan. While reasonable efforts are made, accommodation is not   
   guaranteed every day and is dependent on a number of factors   
   that can, and do, change from day to day.”   
   In a separate statement, Cargill told KUSA-TV:   
      
   “In the Fort Morgan plant, a reflection area for use by all   
   employees to pray was established in April 2009, and is   
   available during work shifts based on our ability to adequately   
   staff a given work area. This has been clearly communicated to   
   all employees.”   
   Jaylani Hussein, a spokesman and executive director of CAIR,   
   told The Denver Post:   
      
   “The workers were told: ‘If you want to pray, go home.’ They   
   feel missing their prayer is worse than losing their job. It’s   
   like losing a blessing from God.”   
   Hussein said Cargill told him the employees were fired over “no   
   call, no show, walk out.”   
      
   The company told KUSA-TV that it had previously made multiple   
   efforts to settle the dispute, including meeting with plant   
   management and union representatives.   
      
   Comments:   
      
   Final Opinion   
   Can all their a$$es. I don't want them handling my food anyway.   
   Like · Reply · 1 · 48 mins   
      
   Craig Eggerton   
   Religion has nothing to do with God and everything to do with   
   self serving groups of people who discriminate.   
   Like · Reply · 1 · 37 mins   
      
   Lee Eng · Hong Kong   
   As a Christian if I pray at my state job I get fired! Go Trump!!   
   Like · Reply · 16 mins   
      
   Ralph Furman   
   Call Obama sounds like Cargill is guilty of violating hate   
   crimes. Maybe Christians should demand extra breaks for prayers.   
   Like · Reply · 4 mins   
      
   https://www.ijreview.com/2016/01/505295-200-muslim-employees-   
   walked-off-the-job-at-a-meat-processing-plant-then-the-real-   
   battle-began/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)