I work at one of the plants. Not saying which one to protect myself. But, wages are bare bones here. Those of you used to making big money will be in for a rude awakening.
Heath in’s and dental is sky high as well. Upper management who will be going plant to plant to negotiate. Are tough bulls. They will not get bullied whatsoever.
What will happen to the Dean HQ now that DFA has bought 44 plants? I heard they're moving to a smaller office in downtown Dallas.
From the looks of this it’s easy to see why we went broke. Losers for sure
We will be lucky if they hire any of us.
You people....
Any teamster would not vote to give up his or her pension or health care plan. Some of you Dip sh–s must not be union.
The way it works from DFA’s side of a contract “negotiation” will most likely be that there is a certain amount of money the company is willing to give... Divide it between wage increases / pension / benefits / PTO increases however you want but that is all there is to give. Take it or the plant will have to charge customers more for the product coming out of the plant to cover the cost, giving sales less leverage to increase or maintain sales volume/margin, resulting in less sales and therefore layoffs and potential plant closure.
Plant i work at we be 100percent no vote on any pension or health care cuts.
Last I heard we keep pension and co pays for health and welfare no pay cut just copays on health dfa saves money
You can call BS all you want DFA is not a good company to work for. You would have to be a fool to except all the cuts they are asking for.
Union and dfa working on a master contract as we speak dfa is listening but there is gonna be some givebacks
I'm calling BS on that. I just went to DFA's website and they have numerous jobs posted starting at 24 bucks an hour and full scale at 18 months is almost 27 bucks an hour.
Only reason I’m with DFA is because there is no where else hiring in my area that pays past $15.00 an hour full time. That’s why.
DFA just bought 44 plants they did not buy them to shut them down. Were would all the mike come from and what would all the farmers do with all the milk. You guys would have to be crazy to take all the cuts DFA want let the government step in and take over. DFA s—s
That's all up to us !! If we cant get what were making gladly give it up to watch all temps come and go. Can't get people to stay past their 30 days of training because these jobs S— that's why we get paid
There are several ex-Deans upper management currently at DFA who have witnessed what Deans leadership did wrong contributing to failure. As the previous post states, they will not be “bullied” because they know what they need to do to sustain the business and make the company profitable. They are not afraid to close facilities when needed for the betterment of the business, I wouldn’t go into this with a chip on your shoulder expecting DFA to owe you anything.
Why you still working there then?