Just before New Years, Cargill Meat Solutions, fired 190 Somali émigré meatpackers at their plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado. The company is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, a business unit of the global Cargill, Inc. headquartered in Minneapolis.
200 Somali Muslim workers had staged a walkout on December 18th protesting processing line restrictions for time off to fulfill daily prayers.
Cargill had endeavored to set up arrangements at the Fort Morgan plant to assure production continuity and set aside a room at the facility that employees of various religious persuasions could avail themselves of. [The Iconoclast] Read more
