Muslims paid to pray during work hours at $14.00 hour - Do YOU get paid to pray???

Provided to us from a retired U.S. Marine ..............

NOW - IF ONLY WE HAD REAL CONGRESSMEN/ Senators  and a REAL PRESIDENT THAT GAVE A DAMN about  OUR CONSTITUTION and OUR LAWS and OUR NATION and would only do the same,  "WE"  WOULD have a GREAT NATION ONCE AGAIN!!

 

Cargill meat plant fires 150 Muslims Who Prefer to Take Time off to 'Pray rather than to ......................... WORK.

Here’s another example of how Islam is not compatible with a modern civilized

society. Muslim workers walked off the job at a Colorado meat processing

plant because they demanded more accommodations for their multiple daily

prayer sessions. In a move that is sure to send liberals through the roof,

the company fired the Muslim employees who refused to work. The Denver Post reports that around 200 Muslim workers, most of them Somali refugees,

walked off their jobs at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan, CO ten days

ago. Their beef (pun intended):  the comany wouldn’t let them take several

10-minute prayer breaks per day.  The problem is, the meat processing plant is an assembly line and when a couple of hundred employees abandon their posts to pray to Allah, the whole operation shuts down. Now try to image that happening 4 or 5 times every day. The company had been allowing the Muslims prayer schedule and even provided them with a prayer room, but changed policy recently because it was killing productivity.  Keep in mind that the Muslim workers were allowed to pray during their mandated breaks and lunches.

 

Oh, and the job starts out at $14 an hour with more experienced workers

making much more. 

Apparently none of this was good enough and so the Muslims staged a walk out.  Though these Muslim workers are Teamsters, the union didn’t want to have anything to do with this ridiculous strike so the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) stepped in to negotiate.  They feel missing their prayer is worse than losing their job. It’s like losing a blessing from God, said CAIR executive director Jaylani Hussein.Cargill told the Muslim employees to either return to work or find another job.  About 50 of them took this seriously and came back, while 150 or so did not.  On Tuesday, the company fired the 150 who felt praying was more important than providing for their families.  And guess what....The fired Muslims now suddenly want to come back to work under the conditions they previously thought were unbearable!

The company called their bluff and now they are out of luck. Cargill has a policy that any employee that is fired may not re-apply for a job for six months.  I applaud the company for this mass firing. These Muslims had good paying jobs that complied with all US labor laws, but they wanted special treatment that would cost Cargill money in lost productivity. If their religion doesn’t comply with normal American employment, they shouldn’t even be in this country.  This is a common theme with Muslims in the US. They demand special food, special dress code exemptions, special prayer spaces funded by others, and special prayer breaks. No one forced them to move here. They should assimilate to our way of doing things instead of us bending over backwards to accommodate them.  I have a feeling this story is just beginning, as Muslims are the Liberals’ new protected class of people.

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Nearly 150 Muslims fired for absences after prayer dispute at Colorado plant

By Jareen Imam, CNN

Updated 4:35 PM ET, Sat January 2, 2016

(CNN)  About 150 Muslims were fired from their jobs at a beef processing plant in Colorado for failing to show up for work over a prayer dispute. Last month, a group of 11 workers at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan wanted to go pray at the same time in a room in the plant that is set aside for prayer and reflection. Their supervisor asked that the group break up into smaller numbers to not affect production, according to CNN affiliate KCNC.

The workers complied with the supervisor's request and went in smaller groups to pray. But after their shift ended, 10 of the 11 workers resigned, turning in their badges and hard hats, Cargill spokesman Michael Martin told CNN.

News of the dispute spread to other plant employees, and about 150 Somali workers missed work for three days in protest.

Based on Cargill's attendance policy, the company fired those who failed to come to work for three consecutive days without giving any form of notice, Martin said.

Many are now applying for unemployment as the company looks for new hires, KCNC reported.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslims workers who were fired after the prayer dispute said that accommodation requests were handled in a discriminatory manner by plant managers, according to a press release.

Although some circumstances surrounding the prayer dispute remain vague, Jaylani Hussein, a spokesman and executive director of CAIR, told The Denver Post that a plant policy allowing short prayer breaks at various times during the day was changed, and Muslim workers were told to "go home" if they wanted to pray.

Cargill released a statement saying that the company has policies specific to attendance and religious accommodations and makes reasonable attempts to provide religious accommodations for its employees. Martin said the company's policies have not changed.

The plant has two reflection rooms for all of its 2,100 employees to use for prayer. "There are times where we have to sequence how many people are allowed to go [to pray] so that production is not slowed down," Martin said.

Martin said the company tried to work toward a solution with the workers, without success.

Although the company is in the process of hiring new employees, it is possible those who were fired may be able to reapply for their old jobs. The company has a six-month waiting period before reapplying, but Martin said that waiting time may be reduced.

More than 500 Somalis continue to work at the plant, Martin said.

CAIR did not immediately respond to a request from CNN for comment.

Cargill Meat Solutions, with headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, is a division of Cargill Inc., which employees 155,000 people in 68 countries.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/02/us/colorado-muslim-workers-fired-prayer-dispute/

 

Since WHEN can Americans take time off from work to pray several times in a work day- and get paid for it - along with paid morning and afternoon breaks and paid lunch?  And get paid unemployment when fired?   No American would EVER receive such special treatment - not ever.