September 16, 2008
Source: KETV.com
http://www.ketv.com/news/17492026/detail.html
A big problem brewing at a Grand Island meat packing plant over religious rights appears to have been resolved.
Local United Food and Commercial Workers Union President Dan Hoppes says management at the JBS Swift & Co. plant has agreed to temporarily change the timing of the second-shift lunch break. That will give workers time to pray during the Muslim observance of Ramadan.
Five-hundred mostly Somali Muslim refugee workers walked off their jobs at the JBS Swift & Company plant Monday, claiming they were denied time to pray.