Court approved, stamped, sealed and delivered. Take it or leave it. It’s their show now.
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Better to kick out their union and reduce them to agricultural wages. Give money back to the farmers who do the REAL work not untalented union slugs.
No voters hate it but they’ll stay anyway because they can’t get anything better out there
I’m not saying anyone owes anybody anything. All I’m saying is get use to voting away your benefits and taking a lot of pay cuts. Lay down, bend over, or roll over... what ever position you like best? I personally would not do it. And I am personally done with that union. I have seen them do this very same thing at other companies. There are still some other unions out there that are good but DFA and your union are a match made in hell.
This truly was the best possible outcome for the hourly employees given the other options noted by others. Being “weak” has nothing to do with it, a no vote would have been ignorant of the current business state with unreasonable expectations or a chip on your shoulder thinking a bankrupt company owes you something.
Lol you fellows are truly weak. That union is going to strip you to the bones and leave you with nothing. Once they start bargaining away your benefits it never stops. So go ahead and keep voting yes as you get expensive healthcare, a wage freeze, no pension, you all are actually so weak I could see DFA doing a wage reduction and your union co-signing it... you all will follow them right off a cliff. That’s amazing!
“They had you by the balls the second Deans filed bankruptcy smart people knew that already”
And this could have turned out better how?
• Majority of plants are staying open.
• Majority of employees keeping their jobs with same pay and similar benefits.
• Bought by companies that are already in a similar segment of the dairy business.
But this would have been better if:
• Dean Foods had gone to Chapter 7 and shut everything down?
• The buyers had been venture capitalists looking to turn a quick buck who definitely would have cut pay and benefits?
• Everything was bought by a Chinese or other foreign company? (That’s working out well for the employees at Smithfield isn’t it- employees actually being disciplined by their Chinese overlords for wearing their own masks and PPE at work and virus breakouts in their plants that are bigger in numbers than some entire regions of the country).
They had you by the balls the second Deans filed bankruptcy smart people knew that already
Well. A cba is better than not....but, geez the vote turnout was pathetic....at alta dena we r close to 900....and r deal was not that bad....happy for less....hell no...but being in a bread line was other option....so u haters, Walmart is looking for a bunch of dummies...
I know right. Cry me a freakin river
LOL...the sense of victimhood is amazing.
We're quickly approaching unemployment numbers we haven't seen in a generation, many companies big and small that were barely making it before these shutdowns are not going to reopen or else are going to downsize greatly when they do, and no new company anywhere in the U.S. offers a defined pension plan- those plans are exclusive to long standing union shops at companies that are profitable and to gov't employees.
But we're being screwed over because we're keeping our jobs with an extended guaranteed contract but are only being given 97% of what we were being given by the failed bankrupt company.
So add DFA to the list of entities that are actively screwing you over. So far, it includes:
*Dean Foods
*Prairie Farms
*DFA
*Teamsters
*DOJ
I'm sure I'm missing at least a few dozen others.
Learned victimhood.
Not really. Nobody has to work for DFA. Can work anywhere you want.
I actually am a panelboard op. I can take naps and still get paid. I wouldn’t trade my job for Wal Mart any day. I’d actually have to work there.
DFA and PF are not forcing anyone to work at their plants, you aren’t chained to your forklift or filler. Go out and find another job rather than stay and make it miserable for the rest that are glad to have jobs.
Nope. Overwhelming YES vote, so CBAs preserved, just a different kind of pension and really minor changes overall outside of the pension.
https://teamster.org/news/2020/04/teamster-members-vote-approve-agreements-facilitate-purchase-bankrupt-dean-foods
Despite the hard core "we're got them where we want them, vote NO" crowd, this was the better of 2 options because it preserves the CBAs. Don't like it? Yep, totally understand not liking it, but we still have a CBA. Hate it? Well go work for Walmart.