Tyson Foods Boo Boo

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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]There is justice in the world! [][/#800000][/font][/size]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]For all you naysayers, I offer the following press release from Tyson Foods which comes just 4 days after coming to light on the Internet. The public has spoken and Tyson Foods has seen the handwriting on the wall. I can only imagine what the torrent of mail was like to make them reverse themselves in only 4 days. I may even have to rethink buying their products. I will most certainly send them an email congratulating them for coming to their senses and doing the right thing.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]Here is their release:[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[b][#cc0000][font "Verdana"]Labor Day Reinstated as Paid Holiday at Shelbyville, TN, Plant; Tyson Foods Requested Change from Union[/font][/#cc0000]
[#000000]Springdale, Arkansas – August 8, 2008 - Tyson Foods, Inc. announced today it has reached a new agreement with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an American union, reinstating Labor Day as one of the designated paid holidays under the contract for covered employees in the Shelbyville, Tennessee, plant. [/#000000]
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[#000000]Tyson made this request on behalf of its Shelbyville plant employees, some of whom had expressed concern about the new contract provisions relative to paid holidays. In an effort to be responsive, Tyson asked the union to reopen the contract to address the holiday issue, and the union agreed to do so. The union membership voted overwhelmingly Thursday to reinstate Labor Day as one of the plant’s paid holidays, while keeping Eid al-Fitr as an additional paid holiday for this year only. This means that in 2008 only, Shelbyville employees will have nine paid holidays. [/#000000]
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[#000000]For the remainder of the five-year contract period, the eight paid holidays will include: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and a Personal Holiday, which could either be the employee’s birthday, Eid al-Fitr or another day requested and approved by their supervisor. [/#000000]
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[#000000]This issue concerns only the plant at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Labor Day has always been celebrated, and continues to be, at the other 118 Tyson plants across the country. [/#000000]
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[#000000]The Shelbyville complex employs approximately 1,200 people. Approximately 1,000 workers are covered by the RWDSU union agreement at that location.[/#000000]

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