Talks underway required all employees to download a company app which includes time card submission, benefit information, vacation/pto entry/ calendar and various other data. App will also require you to enter time you take non lunch breaks and... — read more
9-1-20
Is haverhill closing sept 1st. Does anybody know the truth
Any word about Dollar General.
Rumor here is we are loosing the Dollar Stores. Is that everywhere ? Just a bad rumor ?
DFA has agreed to install security cameras company wide.
Agreement has been reached to install cameras in every plant, warehouse, break room, smoking areas, trucks, and parking lots. They want employees to feel safe when they come to work and to eliminate any possible theft. GPS tracking units will... — read more
Not to long ago Nestle got phased out vender deliveries and went straight to the warehouse
Is there any word that DFA is going to slowly phase out certain brands and force them to the warehouse?
New updates
As i work for DFA, I’m being told by higher up managers that the 30 sell period has come and gone with no buyers for Franklin, now the government steps in and trys to sell it for 60 days and than if no one has purchased it by then than there is... — read more
Dfa 401k enrollment
have any of you started contributing to the new 401k with dfa ? We at Belvidere plant signed up but no accounts are activated yet
Baskin Robbins
They also have the Baskin Robbins franchisees by the ball because they overcharge for the ice cream that franchises are forced to buy providing a kickback to Baskin Corp. the whole thing stinks of monopoly...
DFA to slash SALESFORCE by 30%
DFA in talks to start making cuts across the board according to insider at Kansas City office. Mass reorganization of former Dean Foods workforce about to take place. Just a morsel if info I’m passing along.
Accounts
Cvs 7-11 whats goin on in the south and north
Franklin plant
Who thinks Franklin is about to close? Running soft. Dairy is running just 4 days meaning we get only 32 hours. The tyrant supervisor in the chest and case room is pushing everyone to the limits and wonders why noone will work for him. He steps on... — read more
DFA to restructure all contracts in 2022.
Rumor here is DFA is planning a company wide restructure. Wages and benefits will be adjusted to match existing DFA pre 2020 structures.
Buyer for Chemung and DePere plants
Looks like we a have a buyer for Chemung and DePere. SELECT MILK PRODUCERS, also known as Select Dairy and Fair Oaks Farms
Franklin
Any news on franklin and haverhill depot
DFA now losing Deans business
giant eagle ice cream business on the way out !!! DFA must have went for a home run raising the price. And a swing and a miss !!! Taking giant eagle business elsewhere. Sure hope they don't continue this practice or soon we will make nothing!!
concerned
with the company changes the employees have suffered loss of work hours , in the past 2 years we have went from 60 hours to 40 now barely 30. We cannot cont working like this, something has got to give, we lost the biggest account we had Dollar... — read more
Out of site out of mind
If you get hurt on the job don't expect anyone to check on you
Salesmen and Distribution Managers
Get rid of all of them. They are not doing their jobs. They act like they own everyone for keeping company afloat.
Expect more closures
As well as more layoffs. It's obvious that the company has once more decided to cut its way to profit. I'm not sure that's possible, considering that every time they've tried it before it didn't work, which is why we are in this situation as it is... — read more
Drivers
What is so great about you guys??? All you are is a bunch of mules. Half the time you guys don’t even help load or move a crate at stores. All you do is sign dockets.
Didn't pay hazard pay
While on the front line didn't pay hazard pay worked everyday 6 days a week record numbers of getting milk out and didn't offer nothing but a gallon of milk to each employees we put our life on the line ..
Where do you see us 6 months from now?
It cannot continue like this
Severance?
With Dean Foods using all kinds of underhanded methods to get rid of employees - such as firings for no reason - is it even realistic to expect to receive any kind of severance once the next round of layoffs arrives? They don't even seem to care... — read more
Former Dean Foods CEO Buying Borden Dairy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/kkr-former-dean-foods-ceo-win-auction-for-borden-dairy/ar-BB15vMBT Gregg Engle$ Wonder how many millions he'll milk (pun intended) Borden's for before he sells the profitable parts for a big personal... — read more
DFA cutting labor cost 30% by 2023.
Inside sources in Kansas City finished up with a meeting Friday. Tiny morsel has been thrown my way that DFA will be in the process of reorganization of plant labor and to cut staff to do more with less bodies.
curiosity
when will all the Dollar Generals be gone? Theres alot of concerns about losing these stores. Alot of the new routes consist of schools but with covid-19 some may not open again, or if so they will open late fall, some routes will be 2 days worth of... — read more
This page went straight to H**L
Just like Dean Foods. A total waste of time and you wonder how it got to be where it is now!!!??
Where is Fruit Rush sold?
I work at a different company which also has a very active forum on this website and I've never seen this product before until I got it at a food bank. The plant number is 04-607.
Mass firings at my location for bogus reasons. Getting replaced with new hires.
A rash of firings at my location. Some are valid others are almost bogus and made up. We lost 12 guys here in the last 2 weeks. Immediate replacement with temp to hire guys. This is terrible and we are way behind on production. Any other locations... — read more
Interesting
Guess it ain’t over yet https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-dairy-farmers-america-inc-and-dean-foods-company
Any news on bids for different ownership due to the DOJ conditions for Depere, Harvard and Franklin?
Anyone heard anything for who had bid on these places or is it all a front for the DOJ to say we tried?
Food Lion suing DFA over monopoly concerns
https://www.journalnow.com/business/the-briefcase-food-lion-sues-dairy-farmers-over-monopoly-concerns/article_e79d61d2-ca82-52c9-a42a-b4fdf4acc817.html Don't think it will get very far, but expect others to follow if it does.
Mmmmmm so no hazard pay?
A lot of the beverage and other food vendors are beginning Hazard pay to their drivers as well as warehouse workers. Didn't hear anything of Dean Foods offering this before the buyout. Now that we are DFA there's still no talk of it at all anybody... — read more
Sales
What are there plans are they gonna put on new business or are they gonna wait for next corporate stop to open a new location
Eric Beringause- Resigned as CEO, but one of the two remaining board members
Dean Foods website has hidden their investor relations page but it can still be found via google. 8K filed on May 7 lists Eric Beringause and one other as only 2 remaining board members and 2 accountants as only 2 remaining executives... — read more
DFA Le Mars.......
What is so “special” about this facility? Constant talk on here about this place. What is it? Skilled labor, state of the art equip, pay rates, location, family life? Someone please fill me in. This whole board is full of Le Mars.
Job postings?
Just curious. Why does Dean foods continue to post new positions when they don't exist? How long before those jobs are transferred to the DFA site?
Covid testing in plants?
Don’t you think DFA should test workers in our plants? A lot of people are not symptomatic and we could be bringing the virus home. Will they test?