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Union official blames Remington Arms expansion in Alabama on NY Safe Act
Post Standard Syracuse NY ^ | 2/15/14 | Rick Moriarty

Posted on 02/15/2014 10:15:48 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Ilion, N.Y. — A union official said Saturday the Remington Arms Co.'s decision to open a manufacturing plant in Alabama does not bode well for Ilion, and he's blaming New York's Safe Act restrictions on assault weapons.

"It can't be good," said Fran Madore, president of United Mine Workers Local 717, which represents 1,180 of the 1,300 Remington employees in Ilion. "How can it be good?"

Madore said plant officials told him they wanted to meet with him on Monday. They did not say what they wanted to talk about, but Madore said he assumes it will be about the company's reported plans to open a 500,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Ala.

AL.com reported Saturday that the Huntsville facility could employ up to 2,000 people. It said details could be revealed on Monday about plans for a Remington facility in a former Chrysler plant near Huntsville International Airport....

"The SAFE Act has been a terrible thing from the beginning," he said. "You'd think New York would be doing everything to keep us. Instead, it passes a law that cripples us."

Remington and other firearms makers can still manufacture assault weapons in New York, but they can't sell them inside the state. New York lawmakers, at the urging of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, imposed the restrictions after a man armed with an assault rifle massacred twenty children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; US: Alabama; US: Connecticut; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alabama; andrewcuomo; banglist; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; connecticut; ilion; local717; newyork; newyorkcity; remington; safeact; union; unitedmineworkers
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To: ctdonath2

In which case I am truly surprised that you didn’t see many pickups or SUVs. I see them all over the Finger Lakes.


181 posted on 02/17/2014 5:56:25 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: RKBA Democrat

Thanks. I forgot that in union states, people can be forced to join against their wishes,


182 posted on 02/17/2014 5:56:29 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

why oh why does “the media” keep mentioning the weapon that the perp at sandy hook......never USED??


183 posted on 02/17/2014 8:01:04 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: pepsionice

.......absolutely right you are! These socialist unionist New Yorkers have had things real good for a long time. But, forget about wages or anything else. The culture shock between Ilion and Huntsville will be devastating.

Think of growing up in say upscale neighborhoods of, pick a town..........hmmmm, lets say Boston, and then being forced to move to Odessa, Texas home of REAL roughnecks, rednecks, chicken fried steaks, and Friday night high school football with a view out the window wherever you are of the apparatuses of the oil industry and tumble weeds rolling down the street! That’s REAL culture shock substantially analogous to Ilion/Huntsville.

And, the union boss would be strung up to a light pole the first week! He just couldn’t come at all.


184 posted on 02/18/2014 7:22:02 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Elections have consequences...

Who did the Union support in the last several elections?


185 posted on 02/18/2014 9:26:15 AM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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