Remington Lays Of 585 Workers
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 1 month ago
ILION — Despite finding a new buyer, the bankrupt Remington Outdoor Compay laid off 585 employees on Monday and said their benefits would expire later in the week, without severance pay, according to the union that represents them.
Some of the workers, though, may be called back to work in the coming months.
“This outrageous action by Remington Outdoor company is a slap in the face,” said Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, which represents most of the more than 700 people who work at the gun factory. He said the union is exploring legal options to fight the layoffs and lack of severance pay.
“We are now working with the new company to get the plant reopened and start putting our members back to work. But the old, failed Remington had one more kick in the pants for our members,” he said.
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The company is expected to hire back 200 workers within 60 days, according to state Sen. James Seward’s office, whose district includes Ilion. It wasn’t immediately clear, however, if the new workers would be represented by the UMW as the company is emerging from bankruptcy.
United Mine Workers of America.
That’s one reason Remington is bankrupt. Combine collective bargaining with awful management, poor foresight and engineering second rate products that no one wants, the Remington 700 fiasco, and being behind the development and innovation curve, and this is what you’ve got.
Bushmaster had to compete with Daniel Defense, Rock River Arms, LaRue Tactical, BCM, and a hundred other brands. Remington 700 had to compete with Bergara, Tikka, Savage, Ruger and a hundred other brands.
On October 28, 2020 at 8:36 am, Fred said:
So, having destroyed the coal industry the UMW moved on to firearms. Commies are a plague of locusts that need to be…well, there is only one good commie.