Complaint Review: Tropicana Bradenton Plant - Tropicana Products - Tropicana Manufacturing PepsiCo - QTG Management - Bradenton Florida
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- Tropicana Bradenton Plant - Tropicana Products - Tropicana Manufacturing PepsiCo - QTG Management 1001 13th Ave E Bradenton, Florida U.S.A.
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Tropicana Bradenton Plant - Tropicana Products - Tropicana Manufacturing PepsiCo - QTG Management Known unsafe condition #2 ignored for MONTHS by management until I filed OSHA complaint! Bradenton Florida
*Consumer Comment: More retaliation, ANOTHER reprimand AND letter of Termination, WHILE OUT ON SUSPENSION!!
*Consumer Comment: Yeah! The "corrective action" was writing me 5 reprimands, AND suspending me "pending investigation".
*Consumer Comment: Corrective action has been initiated
*Consumer Comment: Corrective action has been initiated
*Consumer Comment: Corrective action has been initiated
*Consumer Comment: Corrective action has been initiated
*Consumer Comment: No forewarning this time!
*Consumer Comment: The ramp is now fixed, but only because OSHA came in!
*Consumer Comment: Sorry, I did it again
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It is amazing that management can be so complacent and even incompetent and still have a job.
This is a situation that went on for months in this new facility, and even years plantwide in plain view of upper management, supervisors and lead persons.
This complaint is about the operation at Warehouse 19. This is a cold storage warehouse where we load and unload customers trailers at a loading dock and also load and unload tropicana product on tropicana flatbeds for transfer between departments.
The forklifts provided to us to do this job were under rated for the load we were hauling. The loads are so heavy, the rear wheels of the forklifts would come off the ground! This was going on for YEARS with full knowledge of managemnt.
I transferred to this department and was being "trained". I was trained to pick TWO crates off of the flatbed and travel BACKWARDS up a ramp with approx a 45degree incline!
The Komatsu electric highlift being used had a MAXIMUM load rating of 4980 pounds, but the 2 crates being hauled were in excess of 6000 pounds!
Keep in mind that the load rating of a forklift is based on a load being centered on the forks, with the forks level, and travelling on a LEVEL surface.
If any of those conditions are not present, the load capacity drops dramatically.
Management at all levels were made fully aware of this hazard on SEVERAL occasions, but production and profit superceded safety. The bean counters made operational policy! If we carried only one box at a time, it would take longer and require more people.
They preach safety as a number 1 priority which is a farce.
Production and cost savings ALWAYS comes before safety at tropicana.
My electric lift shut down on the ramp due to being overloaded and then restarted causing the lift to jerk very hard, tossing the top crate off, leaving 300+ gallons of concentrate running all over the ground.
Then, Pete Hayes of HR directs a REPRIMAND for me through Andrew Justice! Only after my union representative Bob Tuttle had a discussion with Pete Hayes, I was not reprimanded.
The story here is, the employee at Tropicana takes the rap for management incompetence!
AND, the ramp going into the warehouse had 2 big holes and loose broken concrete, so when you would drive through it, the load would sway from side to side and/or shift on the forks.
Again, everyone in charge out there knew about this hazard and failed to act, UNTIL I filed an OSHA complaint. Then, and only then did they take swift action to address the problems. [Still not fully corrected].
Steve
Bradenton, Florida
U.S.A.
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#9 Consumer Comment
More retaliation, ANOTHER reprimand AND letter of Termination, WHILE OUT ON SUSPENSION!!
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, September 30, 2007
This makes no sense other than absolute retaliation.
Yesterday, Friday 9-28-2007, I get a call from my Union Business Agent, Robert Tuttle. He tells me my grievance was not heard at the GRC and is remanded until 10-19-2007. I ask him my status and he confirms that I am suspended. This conversation was mid afternoon.
However, TODAY, 9-29-2007, I get ANOTHER bogus reprimand that was dated 9-25-07, and a letter of termination that was dated 9-28-07! They came to my house together by certified mail.
I am already on suspension "pending investigation" with 5 bogus reprimands.
Now, I get terminated while on suspension? How does that happen?
The reprimand is signed by Wendell Butler as my "steward", but he is the Union President. The supervisors signature is illegible with no printed name.
This reprimand is dated 9/25/2007 and is fairly illegible, so I cannot make a copy of it. However, this is what I can make of it.
"Refusal to comply or assist in the operations or the services of the company when reasonable requests are made by supervisory personnel".
WHAT??????
I have been on suspension since 9-21-2007.
These people are obviously clueless, and this is an obvious attack on me because I held them accountable.
I have done NOTHING wrong here. NOTHING!! Every violation was on the part of Tropicana management! This whole thing escalated ONLY due to unethical and illegal actions by Tropicana HR Management.
#8 Consumer Comment
Yeah! The "corrective action" was writing me 5 reprimands, AND suspending me "pending investigation".
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
As a result of my safety and compliance complaints, I have once again been retaliated against by Tropicana HR.
Javier Feliciano of HR wrote me 5 reprimands at once and "suspended me "pending investigation".
This is their idea of "corrective action".
#7 Consumer Comment
Corrective action has been initiated
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 20, 2007
As of Tuesday afternoon, corrective action was initiated by John Fitzgerald Jr.
It's just a shame that these issues had to be escalated to the top before being addressed.
#6 Consumer Comment
Corrective action has been initiated
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 20, 2007
As of Tuesday afternoon, corrective action was initiated by John Fitzgerald Jr.
It's just a shame that these issues had to be escalated to the top before being addressed.
#5 Consumer Comment
Corrective action has been initiated
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 20, 2007
As of Tuesday afternoon, corrective action was initiated by John Fitzgerald Jr.
It's just a shame that these issues had to be escalated to the top before being addressed.
#4 Consumer Comment
Corrective action has been initiated
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 20, 2007
As of Tuesday afternoon, corrective action was initiated by John Fitzgerald Jr.
It's just a shame that these issues had to be escalated to the top before being addressed.
#3 Consumer Comment
No forewarning this time!
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Friday, September 14, 2007
I was a nice guy with the last OSHA report. I faxed a copy to the company as soon as I faxed it to OSHA. That gave them ample time to take corrective action.
However, they have continuously engaged in their harassment, so this OSHA report I faxed in a couple of days ago will not give them any forewarning.
And, this is a biggie. I will not post the defects here as I want them to be totally suprised.
They think they are so smart, let them try to find this very major issue on their own. After all, I went through the proper in house procedures when I reported the issue last Jan of 2007.
They have had nearly 9 months to fix the problem, and have not even addressed it in that time.
That is how things are done at Tropicana. They are strictly reactive instead of proactive, and the bulk of the management suffers from gross incompetence.
#2 Consumer Comment
The ramp is now fixed, but only because OSHA came in!
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
That ramp would have been broken and still in service indefinitely had I not filed a written OSHA complaint on it.
That is just the way it goes at tropicana.
We still have most of the dock locks broken or in some way defective and they have been like that for years! They just never get fixed until something gets damaged or someone gets hurt! Then the driver gets fired or reprimanded and it's business as usual with the broken dock locks until the next time!
I filed several unsafe condition reports on them back in january of this year, and they are still broken. Bob Opfergelt, shop steward can confirm this.
#1 Consumer Comment
Sorry, I did it again
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, September 10, 2007
Typo:
Andrew Justus not Justice.
Sorry Andrew!
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