Muslim Workers Walk off Job at Swift Plant
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - 500 Muslim workers have walked off the job at a Grand Island meatpacking plant after they say they were denied time to pray during the Muslim observance of Ramadan.
A group of women at Grand Island’s JBS Swift & Co. plant says they were kicked by a supervisor when they attempted to pray.
Hawo Mohammed says she tried to pray quickly in the bathroom until a male supervisor followed her in and told her she was taking too long.
More than 100 workers at a Greeley, Colo., Swift plant were fired last week because the company says they walked away from work before their shifts ended.