Posted on 09/13/2014 8:32:11 AM PDT by george76
An upstate New York lawmaker said the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state last month is due to an anti-gun administration that has ignored pleas from local officials to be involved in the negotiating process.
“Remington talks have come to a halt,” said Assemblyman Marc W. Butler (R.-Newport), whose district includes the Village of Ilion, where the Remington Outdoor Company has been located for almost 200 years. “We are losing 105 jobs at the Ilion primary plant,” said Butler.
In February he predicted long-term consequences of Remington’s decision to expand to Huntsville, Ala., instead of Ilion, N.Y. The small community of 8,000 people Northwest of Albany will be hit-hard by the layoffs, said Butler. Remington, the country’s oldest firearm manufacturer, is adding a 500,000 sq.-ft. development site in Huntsville.
“It is very unfortunate for us in New York,” he said. “We have a great, quality work force; expansion here would have been ideal.” There were talks about additional facilities at “The Pumpkin Patch” in Herkimer County; however he said information was not given to the area senator or county officials, until after they learned about it in the news.
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Remington 1911 and Bushmaster is shifting from New York to Alabama due to the odious provisions in the SAFE Act, he said. “Bushmaster rifles are considered assault weapons.” Bushmaster, who is the leading supplier of AR15-type rifles in the nation, is sold to consumers for hunting, recreation, competition, and home defense.
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It is Cuomo’s anti-gun agenda that has hurt business and will continue to hurt business in New York, he said. “Remington has been critical of the SAFE Act since the gun-control law was championed by Cuomo in January 2013.”
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Another stellar accomplishment by Prince Andrew of Valhalla.
When are the people of Gnu Yak gonna wake the freakin up?
This is the same NY State that runs TV advertisements trying to induce new businesses to relocate by giving them a 10-year tax holiday.
I’d love to see S & W leave Western Massachusetts.It’s a *huge* employer out there (my sister knows several people who work there) and its departure would seriously harm the state’s economy.
Here is a link to the WARN list...
Read it and you will see the great gains (ahem) in Gnu Yak!
http://www.labor.ny.gov/app/warn/
Upstate needs to break away from the city. The two are terminally at odds in every respect. Form a new state, secede, whatever. It’s not working and is killing a beautiful part of the country.
We're looking forward to it...lol
So, 105 jobs? Cuomo knows there are millions of votes in the NYC area, why should he worry? Everyone in the rural upstate reaches could vote for Astorino, and he will still win in a landslide.
My Dad and his buddies used to say that in the early 60s when we lived in Ithaca.
Yeah, but this is manufacturing. Libs don't get manufacturing. It's greasy, and grimy and requires big noisy machines. The kind of business you want is 30-something guys in suits who don't know how to change their own oil sitting behind a computer steally granny's life savings, or a dork with more hardware in his head than a hardware store doing "art" lauding Obama. Even some Obamanite in a onesie sucking down cocoa in his mom's basement is better than oily machines making evil guns that dilute The Won's monopoly on power.
Those unfortunate employees need to realize that all of their “pink slips” were signed by Andrew Cuomo.
It is the same in Illinois. Illinois would be a great state if Chicago were excised.
Mine did too , and we lived on LI. But, back then Nassau & Suffolk counties were fairly conservative working class suburbs.
Saw my share of “Let the Apple Rot” bumper stickers on I90.
He follows in his father's footsteps. Mario was great at chasing businesses out of New York too. This whole Mohawk Valley area is economically depressed. Remington Arms is a manufacturer where generations of families have worked. I don't know where those people are going to get jobs now.
Hopefully that quality workforce will follow the jobs. Huntsville is a great town.
Illinois could lose East St. Louis too
California has the same problem.
It’s dominated by the Freaks in a few big cities.
Most of the State is actually fairly Conservative, some parts very conservative.
I have to admit, that was one of my very first thoughts when I bought my first AR10 and took it out of the box and saw the, "Geneseo, IL" stamped on the side. I thought it odd that generally speaking, I had much freer access to the weapon than many of the residents of the state in which it was manufactured.
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