Clash of cultures: Somali and Latino workers at U.S. meat packing plants
Friday, October 17, 2008
Muslim Somali workers at a meat packing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska wanted to pray. Their colleagues from Latin America wanted to work. A dispute over the company's break schedule led to formal discrimination claims, mass job walk-offs and public protests by both sides last month, and a reported 200 firings.
Tensions at the plant began after a Federal government raid...