Remington coming back

[Link]

An Official Journal Of The NRA | Former Remington Plant Reaches Agreement With Union

A letter of agreement between RemArms and the United Mine Workers of America paves the way to a reopening of the factory.

www.americanrifleman.org

 

[DiffEQ]

Oh boy, I am prepared to be underwhelmed....

 

[Chuck G]

If Winchester can come back 2 or 3 times i think Remington will to . If you think thats the last you have heard of the Remington name you are dreaming.

 

[D Coots]

Don't understand what the United Mine Workers union has to do with firearms manufacturing.....

 

[DiffEQ]

Don't understand what the United Mine Workers union has to do with firearms manufacturing.....

About the same thing that tribes have to do with gambling....

 

[bobinpa]

Don't understand what the United Mine Workers union has to do with firearms manufacturing.....

I agree. I was shocked to see that the workers are in the UMWA.

 

[300_whisper]

Don't understand what the United Mine Workers union has to do with firearms manufacturing.....

The union organization that represents the workers. Since unions are dying out, the big, mainstream ones represent whoever they can. I’m sure at one point UMW only represented miners. But once they started losing the mining workforce they branched out to other industries. I’m in the paper industry and our unions are United Steel Workers.

 

[Riesel]

Wonder who it is for Amazon?
J

 

[rijndael]

Wonder who it is for Amazon?

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
RWDSU

 

[300_whisper]

Wonder who it is for Amazon?
J

since when? I thought they were just going to close down the plants that tried to unionize?

 

[Riesel]

Just read the article, doesn't look that rosy, bright and shiny to me. Union still looks like
a big uncaring bully to me. Roundhill be better off starting from scratch, just put an ad
in the paper.

 

[Richard308]

Don't understand what the United Mine Workers union has to do with firearms manufacturing.....

Wasn't Colt represented by the United Auto Workers in the 1970's ?

 

[ronsatspokane]

Sounds like they are starting out on a path to another bankruptcy.

 

[Tommie]

Oh boy, I am prepared to be underwhelmed....

And you aren’t likely to be disappointed.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

Unions have definitely seen consolidation. During my career in the petroleum industry I saw the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers union (OCAW) merge with United Steelworkers

 

[JimT]

Union=Seniority over competence.

 

[Knotwild]

I don't really care what happens to them. They should lead the pack with innovations, but always seemed to fail at that. The odds of me buying a new Remington = 0%. Tikka for instance = 100%.

 

[tcmikey]

I haven't given much thought to Remington. But now, at first thought, their problem seems to me to be Ruger, Tikka, Savage, Browning. No good innovation at Remington. I assume that's an issue at the top. Which probably isn't union related.

 

[tcmikey]

That's funny. Apparently we see it somewhat similarly Knotwild. And thinking it simultaneously.

 

[300_whisper]

I don't really care what happens to them. They should lead the pack with innovations, but always seemed to fail at that. The odds of me buying a new Remington = 0%. Tikka for instance = 100%.

Remington was always right there, though. Like had a 90% awesome solution and just never followed through with it. That’s the frustrating part. For example the .260 Remington or the Ultra Mags. Or focusing on weird stuff like the electronix rifle or that weird triangle barrel rifle. They should have consolidated rifle styles and really refined them for the cartridges they were shooting. Hindsight is 20/20 though, and I’m being the CPT of it right now.