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Overtime can't keep Nestle open in Ripon Productivity no match for planned closure By Art lama The Stockton Record RIPON — When Nestle Beverage Co. List summer shocked the community and its workers with plans to close its instant coffee plant early this year, many of its 100 employees assumed their jobs would phase out gradually. Instead, they are working seven days per week, racking up hours of overtime, employees said Thursday. But the plant is still slated to close, Nestle spokeswoman Andrea Cook said, although no definite date has been set The plant will operate through the end of April and possibly beyond that. she said. "It will be closing sometime this year," Cook said. Nestle announced last luiv 93 that it _,a dd e1.=ce ;?+.c Ot nt --. m :r,d ution in Rip7n since 19M -- because instant -cof- fee sales were down. The bad news shocked the entire com- munity and employees, many of whom have been working there more than 20 years. Because the announcement was made Please see RIPON, B-2 The Stockton Record Friday, January 7, 1994 RIPON Nestle for planning to close the Terry said employees think they plant despite its high productivity. are working more because the Nestle declines to say how the plant in Freehold, N.J., which will Continued from 9-1 decision was reached except to inherit most of Ripon's opera - so far in advance, however, some say that it was part of a major tions, is being remodeled. that reorganization of its coffee -pro- "We're just doing someone people haven't fully accepted the plant will close, said Dethatyne duction operations. else's work until they can do it," Terry, president of the Employee "Here's the irony," Dituri said. Terry said. Association, the workers union. "They've introduced a new prod- Cook said Nestle still intends to uct line and it's doing well. We're relocate as many people as possi- "1 don't think it has really sunk working seven days a week." ble and help employees find other in," Terry said. "But in a couple Cook confirmed that the plant jobs. of months I think that will is producing Taster's Choice change." Flavored Coffee, a new product, Last July, Joe Dituri was among but said the overtime may be a - the many employees angry at result of a seasonal boost in sales.