Kind of interesting. Most intensive workplace+religion embedding I’ve ever heard of in an industrial environment.
I’ve only been to one large beef processor. IBP in Amarillo TX. They had a Vietnamese chaplain there on that shift. I assume that it’s normal for all large meat and poultry processors. 
I had a whole rant typed up about forcing religion on employees, but on second thought, I think I’ll just pipe down and shaddup.
Tripler
I gotta ask though, how many employees does it take to require 126 chaplains? :eek:
“Some say this is something new happening, but this has been going on for years,” Michelson said. “Hospitals have done it a long time.”
Perhaps, but hospital chaplains are primarily meant to serve patients and their families. Somehow I doubt these chaplains are ministering to the chickens.
Why not? Is there ANYTHING that needs prayer more than a chicken in a Tyson factory? Can’t you just see the priest appearing at the chicken’s door and saying, “It’s almost time, Jed. Let’s pray.”
63?
When they say they’re “faith friendly,” does that include all faiths or just Christianity? Would they provide chaplains to minister to Wiccans or Buddhists? Just wondering.
Do they proselytize the workers? I have this image of a bunch of lay-preachers roaming around the plant trying to badger people into accepting Christ. That would suck. It would be bad enough to have to work at a chicken processing plant without having to get harrangued about the Lord while you’re doing it.
Diogenes, why are you so suspicious, so lacking in faith of human goodness, so…so CYNICAL?
If he’s anything like me, rudimentary observation skills. 
I wonder if they have any Santeria priests amongst their 125 chaplains?
Minister to chickens: “Let us now bow our heads and pray…” <chop>
Hey, I’m an ordained minister, I should get in on some of this action. I wonder how much the gig pays?
Chicken feed?
I’ve never had a job so shitty that I felt the need for religious intervention to get through the day. Wanting to drink, or slap people-sure! Jesus intermediaries, no. Of course I’ve never worked in a chicken abbatoir…
I work for a UAW auto company and we have union chaplains, not company provided ones. My local has a membership of nearly five thousand, with four or five chaplains available. They basically function as the official fuzzy goodwill representatives; visit hospitalized members and deliver flowers, attend funerals and hand out the bible of your choice if you have a death in the family.
It’s always kinda blew my mind that the union feels paying the wages for these folks is a good use of our dues, but it’s rather oddly comforting that it’s just the union doing it and not the company. Somehow, that’s worse.
It does sound strange in an ‘opiate-o-the-masses’ sort of way. I would like to know more.
On the other hand, a buddy of mine is an (unpaid) chaplain for a fire department. It too often gets him funeral gigs, I’m afraid. :mad:
I remember once years ago hearing about an NLRB case featuring sexual harassment by a manager on a chicken processing plant line. As women would be standing there doing their wonderful jobs such as “craw puller,” he would come and stick his hand down their pants. :wally
I think having a few chaplains running around would be infinitely preferable!
Boy, y’all are sure hostile towards religion. It’s not like employees are required to attend services or say the Lord’s Prayer before the shift starts. It’s just someone there who can be utilized by employees working a hard job and often living hard lives if they so choose.
Weird.
Hey, man. They ain’t got no crystal ball. They did have million dollars, but… well you know.