What A Terrible Situation For Remington And Its Workers
BY Herschel Smith
4 years ago
ILION — Following complaints by the union as well as U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, investigators from the National Labor Relations Board launched a probe into the outgoing owners of Remington Arms, which laid off nearly 600 employees ahead of selling the 206-year-old firearms plant in a bankruptcy proceeding.
United Mine Workers of America, Local 717, has complained of what they say are unfair labor practices when the company in October laid off 585 employees without severance pay or continuing health care coverage, which the union says is in their labor contract.
“Our career experts in region 3, Buffalo, have begun an investigation,” NLRB Congressional Liaison Kevin Petroccione wrote in an email on Monday.
One of the allegations contends that “Within the previous six months, the Employer unlawfully dominated or controlled the operations of a labor organization,” and the “the Employer failed and refused to recognize the union as the collective bargaining representative of its employees.”
In a better world, Remington’s previous management would not have sold out to Cerberus Capital, “financial engineers” who had no intention other than to fleece all capital out of the company and leave it in shambles. Good men don’t do that to a company, no matter how much they are paid to do it, no matter how many homes on the beach and in the mountains they are promised.
In a better world, workers would not be in a collective bargaining agreement anywhere, because that means there is no right to work by other men who need to feed their families. They are blocked. They cannot cross the line into the plants. There is no competition between men. The competition is between companies, and Remington got destroyed by that.
This is all a failure to live life by Biblical principles, whether on the part of the management or the workers, or both. In the mean time, quality went down, innovation stopped, design ideas stayed on the drawing board or never even made it that far, and men simply worked their shift while the management got rich.
How sad for everyone.
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On November 3, 2020 at 2:28 pm, scott s. said:
Union shops are a form socialism contracts between generations. Young workers agree to be screwed with the understanding that they will be protected when they are old (the idea of “solidarity”).
On November 3, 2020 at 8:45 pm, luke2236 said:
This is all political BS. And (((WHO))) is the main holder of cerebus capital? none other than gyorgy schwarzstein from what I have read. Or you might know him as george soros…