Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Producers Dairy Foods. Don't buy their Milk!!!!

Like most of people , you enjoy getting up in the morning to a great breakfast. You search for your favorite cereal and  milk. You notice you are out. So you go to the store and try to pick out a certain brand. In Northen California. There is Berkley Farms, Foster Farms, Crystal and Producers Dairy foods milk. By far the worst on the Market....!
 
I made the mistake in picking this milk and 
took it home.  The milk was delivered that day by the driver who was there while I was buying stuff at Cosco. I poured it into my cereal and started to eat it, It was sour and smelled bad. I checked the date and  it was fine. I went to the store and complained and was giving a credit. 

I started to investigate this Company and talked to many employees who worked there. What I found out was shocking and disturbing.  









The 1st thing on my list is how bad there milk really is. I have bought  many samples so to speak and compared there milk to others. Hands down they have the worst in your stores. There expiration  dates do not compare to their competition and found nothing but leaking milk and bad milk cartons. Were they purchase their  milk cartons is beyond me. 

I spoke to a few of their employee's and found out quite a bit about who is running  this 1/2 ass opperation. The owner is some old guy named    Larry and his son Richarg Shihady. His sons run this hell hole and from what they told me, his 20 something grandson is like the vice president. No wonder everything is screwed up... Would you trust your milk to a guy just out of college?  Not me...

I found out that this is not a Union Company which does not surprise me. All the other Milk company's are union except this one. I talked to a few drivers and was told that the Owners have threatened their employee's with layoff's and dicipline if they try to form a union. I was also told that this happened once before. All those drivers were fired from their jobs because of their union affiliations. 

The drivers and workers I spoke to complained of long hours, low pay and unheard of dicipline.  The Fresno branch has quite a few Latino workers and I have been told they in particular are threatened alot. In this time of layoff's and bad economy, Producers Dairy Foods  makes it a point to over work their workers and put them into dangerous situations . They do not pay them a decent working wage and treat them badly.

I do not know about you, but I would not spend my hard earned money on a milk company that produce's bad milk, cheese, and yogurt for them to fill their greedy pockets.

A few more things were discovered. They have without question the worst fleet of trucks and vehicles that deliver these Milk products..!  The driver I spoke to, tolm me he try's to avoid the scales because his truck is overloaded ( a  safety violation). I asked him why? He told me that his supervisors would write him up or fire him if he got a ticket.  ( another violation)  I said don't you have mechanics for your fleet? He said yes, but they only have a few and send them off to other depot's  (  another safety issue..)   because they don't have enough of them or do not want to pay for more.  This is incredible. These big trucks are on the road and are serviced when they feel like it?

 In closing and I will write more as I get more info, its time for company's like Producers Dairy foods of Fresno California to treat their employee's and customers  better. Not over work them, and pay them a decent wage... 

I still won't buy their crappy milk though..!

2 comments:

  1. Absolutely floored by such a post as frankly I couldn't find ANY complaints about producers. Where are you getting these complaints from? You state the net, but I find nothing.

    I haven't had any of the problems with the milk at producers and quite the contrary the milk is excellent tasting and the freshest I've had. They are currently sold at Mi Pueblo, and if a place abuses Hispanics as horridly as you put it I have no doubt that the hispanic community will revolt against them rather than selling their milk and ONLY their milk in their stores.

    Now other milks like berkeley farms and foster farms makes white water and tastes nasty in comparison so I frankly have no idea what you're drinking but it's not producers.

    Since you created your blog only to rant about this farm I'm willing to wager you have some personal and vested interest in this. Anyways my post is for anyone else to make a sound and informed decision.

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  2. Ok did some sleuthing and found the 2005 lawsuit regarding overtime with Richard's response:

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8231535_ITM

    He admitted that they wanted a union but were confused as they voted it out in the 70s.

    As for working conditions it seems to have changed now according to this one small clip.
    http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Producers-Dairy
    (one has to register through indeed, not sure if they do background checks)

    The lawsuit happened in 2005, and the court ruling and their anti union stance should clue workers in to whether or not they would be treated as well as they want to.

    As for the people who created producers, Richard Shehany is over 100+ years old, now has dementia so it's not surprising that someone younger would need to take over. And on that note of trusting someone right out of college, you use blogger and trust google right? Well they founded this company when they were IN college...

    Anyways I'm not surprised if this was the work of a disgruntled worker who shipped milk that was spoiled to some market. That said it doesn't add up that they would successfully sell to the same community they apparently abused as hispanics are sensitive about this, especially in California.

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