Colo. plant and Somali workers fight over prayer

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | September 12, 2008

DENVER (AP) — Tensions have flared between Somali workers and officials at a Colorado meatpacking plant over when employees can break for prayer during the Muslim observance of Ramadan. Religious discord between U.S. factories and Muslim workers is nothing new, but a spokesman for the Washington D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said he’s never seen a conflict escalate to the point it has at the JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Greeley, a city north of Denver. “Usually in these cases we’re able to come to an amicable solution,” CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said Thursday.

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