TYSON FOODS Reinstates Labor Day * offs muslim holiday

Some of you may recall a recent thread at GLP asking for emails to be sent to Tyson Foods threatening a boycott if they continued to replace Labor Day with a muslim holiday.
I sent an email to them in this regard, and maybe some of you did the same.
I just received this in my email.
SUCCESS ! Read on !

Labor Day Reinstated as Paid Holiday at Shelbyville, TN, Plant
Tyson Foods Requested Change from Union

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Shelbyville complex employs approximately 1,200 people.
Approximately 1,000 workers are covered by the RWDSU union agreement at
that location.