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Staff Attorney Rabya Khan Back in Nebraska for Depositions on Swift Case

November 3, 2011
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Staff Attorney, Rabya Khan, of CAIR-Chicago was back in Grand Island, Nebraska again last week continuing depositions on the JBS Swift Case. CAIR-Chicago is representing about 50 plaintiff intervenors in an U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) discrimination lawsuit filed against JBS Swift in 2010.

Khan will be traveling again next week to Minneapolis for defending our clients in their depositions.

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CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Kevin Vodak speaks on “Welcome to Shelbyville” panel

June 6, 2011
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The panel sought to engage community members in a discussion regarding the problems some Americans have in adjusting to and interacting with new immigrant populations.

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CAIR-Chicago Sponsoring FREE Screening of "Welcome to Shelbyville"

May 12, 2011
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CAIR-Chicago is co-sponsoring a free screening of the movie “Welcome to Shelbyville”. Set on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election, the film captures the interaction between Shelbyville’s old and new residents as they search for a way to live together during that tumultuous, history-changing year.

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CAIR-Chicago Sponsoring FREE Screening of “Welcome to Shelbyville”

May 12, 2011
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CAIR-Chicago is co-sponsoring a free screening of the movie “Welcome to Shelbyville”. Set on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election, the film captures the interaction between Shelbyville’s old and new residents as they search for a way to live together during that tumultuous, history-changing year.

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CAIR-Chicago Files Suit on Behalf Somali Workers Fired by Neb. Swift Plant

November 24, 2010
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CAIR-Chicago filed a discrimination lawsuit in federal court on behalf of 49 Muslims of Somali heritage who were fired from Swift Co, a meat packing plant in Nebraska. The lawsuit intervenes in a class action filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in August.

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Muslim Group Files Suit on Behalf Somali Workers Fired by Neb. Swift Plant

November 24, 2010
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The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations yesterday filed a discrimination lawsuit in federal court on behalf of 49 Muslims of Somali heritage who were fired from a meat packing plant in Nebraska.

The lawsuit intervenes in a class action filed by the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in August on behalf of more than 200 Somali factory workers from the Swift Co. plant in Grand Island, Nebraska.

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Omaha World Herald: Meat Plants Seem a Breeding Ground for Culture Clashes

September 21, 2008
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Central Nebraska has become the latest stage for an unfolding American drama. Tensions over Muslim workers’ request for prayer time erupted into worker walkouts, protests, counterprotests, a brief plant shutdown and employee firings at a meatpacking plant in Grand Island.

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