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:: Thursday, October 30, 2008 ::
Melting Pot in Hell - Martha Rosenberg, CounterPunch, CA
Orthodox Jews and Latinos are clashing in Postville, IA. Somalis and Latinos are clashing in Shelbyville TN. Somalis, Latinos and Sudanese are clashing in Grand Island, NE. And you'd think it has nothing to do with slaughterhouses.
It's about prayer breaks during Ramadan, paid holidays, cultural clashes and 'assimilation into the American melting pot,' say news reports. Not the $8 an hour knocker, sticker, bleeder, tail ripper, flanker, gutter, sawer, and plate boner slaughterhouse jobs that even Americans prisoners on work release won't do.
Since US immigration officials began plucking 2,000 illegal Latino workers from meat packing plants in late 2006, hundreds of Somalis have taken up the cudgel, pun intended.
Unfortunately, it has led to new problems.
When Tyson Foods made Eid al-Fitr instead of Labor Day a paid holiday for Somali workers at its Shelbyville, TN plant in August there was such a backlash from other workers, they had to reverse the decision.------------------------------------------- posted 7:20 AM :: reference link ::
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