Now Muslims at Swift plant protest Ramadan fasting breaks being taken away.

Culture: The long version of what happened is here.

The short version.
1) Muslims at the plant after a protest got permission to change around break time in time with the daily end of Ramadan fasting.

2) Non Muslim workers at the plant got pissed and protested what they saw as preferential treatment and one even accused the mostly Somali Muslims of running the plant.

3) Swift reversed themselves and now the Muslims are protesting.

More than 100 Muslim workers planned to march a couple miles to a Greeley meatpacking plant Monday afternoon in protest of what they called JBS Swift & Co.’s sudden reversal of accommodation for their religious fasting. The workers, mostly Somalis but also from several other East African nations, said they were told by Swift management on Friday not to report to work Monday until the matter of changed break times to accommodate their fasts was settled. On Friday, about 350 Muslim workers left work mid-shift — about 9:30 p.m. — when they were told they were not to break at 7:30 p.m. when their roughly 12 hours of daily fasting for Ramadan ended. Earlier in the week, the workers had negotiated with Swift to get the earlier break to allow them food and water after their fast. Mohammed Osman, a Swift worker and one of the Somalis gathering in a downtown Greeley park Monday morning, said the company fired 10 to 15 Muslim employees on Friday. He said three female Muslim workers were also let go after they went into an employee locker room at about 7:30 p.m. Friday. Omar Clarke, who is not Somali but described himself as “a white-and-black” Muslim, said workers at 7:30 p.m. Friday were told not to leave their work lines. He said the company closed bathrooms to the workers at that time. “At 7:30 Friday they did not accommodate us on our religious beliefs,” he said. “… After they told us we couldn’t pray, we all walked out.” .....One non-Muslim worker told the Tribune Friday, “the Somalis are running our plant. They are telling us what do to.” Aziz Dhies, who doesn’t work at Swift but said he is a local representative of the Somali community, said the Somalis are trying to peacefully receive what they believe is a rightful concession to their religious beliefs. “We are very peaceful people. We don’t hate anybody,” he said. “… We love everybody here.” On Friday, JBS Swift’s global human resources director Jack Shandley said U.S. law requires companies to “when they can, make reasonable accommodations.”

The saga continues!