Tyson workers get Labor Day holiday back

The union representing the Tyson workers has overturned the contract that traded Labor Day for a Muslim Holiday. Now they will get both holidays. Oh beautiful / For spacious skies / For amber waves of grain... The Shelbyville Times-Gazette has more.

Members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and Tyson Foods workers at the poultry processing plant in Shelbyville overwhelmingly voted to overturn a union contract that replaced Labor Day as a paid holiday with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, it was announced this morning.

The new agreement will increase the number of paid days off for workers in the current calendar year to include both Labor Day and the Muslim observance as paid holidays for workers in the Shelbyville plant.

The agreement amends the existing contract negotiated last year, according to a press release from the RWDSU.