Laid off NY Remington workers fight for severance, vacation pay

Vol. 84/No. 45 - November 16, 2020
Laid-off members of United Mine Workers of America rally outside Remington plant in Ilion, New York, Oct. 28, as bosses use bankruptcy to deny severance pay, unused vacation benefits.

ILION, N.Y. — “We’ll be out here until we get paid what we are owed,” Jamie Rudwall, United Mine Workers of America District 2 representative, told 100 people at an Oct. 28 rally here. Most were among the 585 workers…