Roger Parkhurst provided Rep. Chris Collins with a tour of the Alpina Foods plant in the Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park today.
Parkhurst, left, gave Collins, who sits on the House Agriculture Committee, an overview of Alpina's history, the Greek yogurt market in the United States and the process Alpina uses to make yogurt locally.
The plant started production in October and Parkhurst said the operation has already grown to what it projected for its second year of business. There are 55 permanent employees with Alpina locally, and to help meet production demands, the plant uses up to 100 temporary employees at times.
There are already plans on the drawing board to expand the plant.
This is what GCDEC is
This is what GCDEC is supposed to be doing, bringing manufacturing to the area, NOT sporting goods stores and Restaurants.
You build factories and the sporting goods stores and restaurants will come on their own.
100 temp jobs, big friggin
100 temp jobs, big friggin deal, temp. = min. wage, no benefits,= BS.
Whoever the vote down was,
Whoever the vote down was, please elaborate, who are ya, Stevie
" Wonders" brother?
Frank, I voted you down.
Frank,
I voted you down. First, I don't think all the jobs there are minimum wage ones. Second, even a part time job is better than no job if you need one.
Do you know for a fact the jobs are all minimum wage and that nobody gets any benefits?
But what about the Alpina
But what about the Alpina jobs?
A growing company uses temp
A growing company uses temp jobs to fill positions while evaluating long-term employment needs, establishing job descriptions and organizational structure and under taking an orderly hiring process.
The last thing you want to do is make bad hires -- bad hires because you put the right people in the wrong positions or just plain hire the wrong people. You don't want to layoff people if you can help it, and you don't want to hire somebody with a high percentage chance of later getting firing that person because you didn't do the right hiring process in the first place.
100 temps is not a bad thing. It's a very great thing -- it means Alpina is growing faster than they can hire qualified people, which bodes well for long-term employment prospects.
My son works for a company
My son works for a company that uses temps to evaluate them for permanent positions when one comes open.
John, I realizes that happens
John, I realizes that happens and our department once hired a person off temp (the person was so good, we decided to go off budget and keep her), but typically, temp companies frown on the practice and often write into contracts that you can't keep their temps. But I've also never known a temp company to really stand in the way of a client wanting to hire a temp.
The other thing -- these
The other thing -- these temps are getting a lot of valuable experience that should help them, if they're good, when Quaker Muller goes into production.
Temp to hire is wide open for
Temp to hire is wide open for abuse, but I won't go there, maybe all my years as a union member have formed my opinion on casuals, don't like it, never will.
It's like needing an "Agent" to get a job. A well managed company can forecast labor needs, the ones I worked for did.
Howard, agreed, in that
Howard, agreed, in that aspect, it is a good thing.
Actually Howard, most Temp
Actually Howard, most Temp companies in this state have contracts that prevent hiring their employees for the first 90 days, and encourage permanent hiring because it increases their value by being a farm team for growing businesses especially manufacturing.
What temp companies frown on is small businesses using temps for 1 or 2 weeks than hiring them, the 90 clause is written into every temp contract I have ever seen