FOREST CITY, Iowa -- Winnebago Industries employees missed their tradtional time off around the holidays, thanks to an increased backlog of sales orders, according to an article published by the Globe Gazette.
Winnebago employees typically have an extra week or two of vacation over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, said Sheila Davis, company spokesperson. However, this year, some employees even worked on New Year's Eve.
Working through that traditional plant shutdown will help ease the impact of four holidays and a physical inventory day planned during the second quarter of fiscal 2010, Winnebago Industries Chief Executive Officer and President Bob Olson said during a Dec. 17 review of the first quarter results, the Globe Gazette reported.
He said the company, which laid off about 900 workers at its Forest City and Charles City plants and closed a Charles City plant in a restructuring process begun in January 2008, has been using all three Forest City production lines since October. “We are now working overtime and have increased our hourly employee base by approximately 350 since the end of the fiscal year on Aug. 29,” he said.
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