Lohud – by Joseph SpectorThere may be another round of layoffs at Remington Arms, the venerable gun manufacturer in the Mohawk Valley.
Herkimer County Legislature chairman Vincent Bono told YNN and WKTV in Utica that a local jobs placement agency has been informed about the layoffs, but he didn’t know when and how many.
A message left with Remington Arms, which had about 1,300 workers at the plant, was not immediately returned.
The Observer-Dispatch in Utica quoted Tenney as saying the layoffs are due to the end of a rifle recall, and the website cited a local worker who said on Facebook she had been let go.
The layoffs would be the second at the plant since August — when the company let go about 105 workers.
The company has been critical of the SAFE Act and it has expanded in Alabama instead of New York.
Cuomo has dismissed the layoffs as having nothing to do with the law. Several gun companies have left New York since the law was passed, and they blamed the law as the primary reason.
“The layoffs at Remington Arms are a function of Remington moving to the state of Alabama and consolidating operations all across the country,” Cuomo told reporters in August at the State Fair in Syracuse. “I know we tend to think we’re New York it must be about us. Sometimes it’s not about us.”