The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn

The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. Under the new contract the plant's workers were to get eight paid holidays, as before; but Labor Day was no longer to be one of the eight.

It was replaced by the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr. This was another "accommodation" to the plant's Muslims, who constitute a large part of its workforce. The firm had already built a Muslim prayer room for them. (There is no Christian prayer room.) Facing public outrage, the RWDSU was at first brazen, but the contract has now been renegotiated, and Labor Day reinstated. We quietly wonder how many other "accommodations" will be made by other unions at other plants before the public becomes resigned to them and weary protesting. Five? Ten? The future comes apace.