Labor Union Swaps Labor Day For Muslim Holiday.

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Posted to Business on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 09:23:28 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Labor contract discussions are the stuff upon which sound snoozes can be built. But one labor agreement recently struck between a major food processing plant and the union representing workers has raised much interest. It seems that, for the next five years, the workers at Tyson Foods in Shelbyville, Tennessee will be swapping paid holidays. Labor Day becomes just another workday and, in its place, the plant workers will be celebrating a paid day off at the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.

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