So I have a question about management at each plant. Supposedly as part of the agreement, DFA is supposed to offer employment to existing employees. Does this include management? For example, does the plant manager, HR manager, finance manager, QA manager, and maintenance managers at each plant need to be worried about losing their jobs? Will DFA replace them with their own people?
10 replies (most recent on top)
Agreed with the New York plant. It should start in the plant though. Every manager position is just a puppet for the plant manager. No degrees and some have been demoted in the past only to serve as a kiss a**. There is no transparency in the plant only closed doors. This plant took everything from the workers claiming it was company wide yet other plants in the region still provided employees with benefits. Trash talking managers. And puppets!!!
At your Plant in Rensselear New York, it would be in the best interest of DFA to wipe out all management and supervision in the distribution side. If we want a chance to grow and be profitable, that Group needs to be replaced. Procrastination and poor judgement is all they offer. I say a fresh start should mean new management, supervision, and half the dispatch team should be replaced.
A few plants? They have 47 processing plants. I was looking at the dockets and it does say that we will be considered as "transferred employees".
That is incorrect, DFA had over 40 manufacturing facilities before this Deans purchase.
DFA only had a few plants prior to the sale. They don't have their own people to run these plants...
Production supervisors and plant managers all got 18000 bonuses while we were in bankruptcy procedures. It's in court documents. it's a shame what continues to go on
ALL plants should unanimously turn it down. Dont give up anything because Dean's managment drove it in the ground with bad business decisions and bonuses for themselves while the ship was under water. nothing to do with out wages and benefits. dont be fooled
That agreement to offer employment to all dean foods employees got voided when they pulled out of the stalking horse bid.
The truth is nobody knows how all this is going to work out. The first step is getting a deal done with DFA and the IBT and there is a short time frame for that and for all the local unions to vote on it then how many plants turn the offer down. Buy yes i would expect most of managment to stay.
We can only hop so!!