Two labour unions have launched a legal challenge against Colt’s Manufacturing Co. for outsourcing manufacture of primary components and laying off workers.
Amalgamated Local No. 376 and United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America filed a civil lawsuit on 27 February, 2018 in the U.S. District Court District of Connecticut. The unions allege that Colt has laid off large numbers of staff and are outsourcing production of all major rifle components including bolts and barrels. This has in turn led to job losses which break a memorandum of understanding reached between the unions and Colt’s in December 2015, as Colt’s emerged from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganisation.
Colt’s allegedly discontinued second-shift operations of bolts and bolt carriers and laid off about 54 workers in October 2016, according to the unions. A further 74 union employees were fired in February 2018. Hartford Business reports that Colt’s have gone from 506 employees in October 2016, down to just 288 in March 2018.
An embattled Colt’s has been struggling for a number of years, most recently emerging from bankruptcy two years ago with a $10 million state loan to ensure that jobs are maintained in Hartford. This loan was used to purchase its current factory space and head office in West Hartford. The Hartford Courant reports that the terms of the loan stipulate that Colt’s must maintain an average of 615 jobs for 60 consecutive months ending 31 December, 2021 under the terms or it could face a penalty of $16,259 per job.
The lawsuit brought by the unions is seeking a ruling to force Colt’s to reverse the layoffs until a proper arbitration case can be heard. The unions have also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. Colt’s have not issue any comment on the lawsuit and court proceedings are continuing.
Jaxon Hughes
bump for interest
Jason Mitchell
Colt haven't been good in like 40-50 years, they can get fucked for all I care.
Nathan Roberts
Gee, I wonder if they tried pay reductions for corporate officers and elimination of executive perks first? Surely they wouldn't just throw the bottom element of the company away while continuing to line their pockets off of the goodwill of the state's taxpayers, right?
Mason Thomas
Nope, it's obviously entirely the hourly workers fault. Salaried employees are perfect and how dare you insinuate they could possibly not be 100% behind the best interest of the company.
Samuel Carter
>Communism undermines another American institution.
In what way is any of this the fault of the unions?
Brody Campbell
Colt has been shit for decades. Mismanagement out the ass and no innovation.
Jonathan Cruz
>water is wet >the sky is blue >colt management are retarded and make retarded decisions
Aiden Kelly
everyone knows that the "Expanse" line of rifles is made of Chinese parts attached to a rebranded Anderson receiver. You want to pay extra for a rollmark, this is what you get.
Sebastian Cox
>the terms of the loan stipulate that Colt’s must maintain an average of 615 jobs for 60 consecutive months ending 31 December, 2021 under the terms or it could face a penalty of $16,259 per job. > from 506 employees in October 2016, down to just 288 in March 2018.
Who could have foreseen this outcome?
Adrian Johnson
I hate to say it because i always loved Colt. But what i loved was the Colt of 80 years ago. Colt today is fucked and ruined. Ian's video on the history of Colt pretty much explains it. Colt will never be the thing it used to be. In it's current form, i couldn't give a fuck about anymore. And I am saying this, even though i am, or was, or have been, a Colt fan Colt-gold-standard shitposting Colt fan boy.
Kevin Johnson
is that a skirt he's wearing?
Logan Mitchell
You never worked a day in your life have you?
Alexander Ramirez
Please tell me that was a joke user.
Asher White
Not in a factory, no. So apron of some kind?
Camden King
OP here, take a look at the posters in the upper right hand corner of the pic
Jace King
Yes, an apron. Considering he's working with guns and lubricants it's not far fetched to consider so.
What about it? Hurr durr COD who cares. I know for a damn fact if I wasn't a poor kid I'd buy guns young because of video games.
Eli Martin
Colt has sucked for longer than you've been alive, the last good thing they did was the Colt Anaconda, and that was during a period where they sucked.
Samuel Gutierrez
to be fair it totally looks like hes wearing a dress from the thumbnail.
Levi Ross
I owned a Colt Anaconda. Sold it. Have a 629 that's better in every way except for aesthetics.
Henry Price
>outsourcing labor >American I can't stand commie faggots, but liberations like yourself are an absolute brain annurism. Working men have families to feed. What a shocker.
Luke Bennett
Fuck colt. Fuck unions.
Why does anyone care about this shit again?
Nicholas Brooks
>sign contract >blatantly violate contract >get sued Fucking communist unions thinking business need to honor contracts.
>TFW you will never have a job where you get to wear cute dresses and build guns all day
Christopher Cruz
It isn't, that's why I'm lampooning the commenters
Julian Jones
You could become a gunsmith and wear cute dresses all day, user
Luis Ramirez
>Capitalism takes advantage of slave labour in communist regimes to deprive capitalist workers of their incomes and purchasing power, and lowering their participation in capitalism
>Why do poor people vote against their own interests? >it is in the interest of the poor to vote for people that want to import nigger shitskins who work for pennies so the upper class can get cheap gadgets >it is the intrest of Jow Forums the gun board, to vote in people that want to ban guns
That really isn't true, the Colt Anaconda is a stupidly robust gun that can easily eat some nuclear handloads, loads that'd stress a 629 to death.
It's one of the last cool things that Colt did.
Wyatt Jackson
That's the last good thing that went anywhere. The 901 was good, but not head and shoulders above the rest good. If colt weren't retarded it could have been something but it's time for them to die
Aaron Wilson
Thatsthejoke.jpg
Jeremiah Ortiz
Good fuck Colt.
Levi Bell
>working men have families to feed Maybe they should get fucking jobs, then. Have skills that are useful and stop fucking demanding more than your labor is worth or the labor will be outsourced, rightfully. Fucking retard.
Dominic Davis
Wonder if they're going for a pump 'n dump
Jace Walker
Colt broke the contract you retard
Brody Parker
They develop end shake problems and only two places can fix it correctly. Ask me how I know.
Also, a 629 post endurance package will handle a lifetime of saami spec 44 mags, which is actually a bit more energy than Elmer Keith originally intended for the cartridge anyway.
So, would you guys rather Ruger purchase Remington or Colt?
Brandon Jenkins
I would rather Remington implode and end as a company.
Colt can go too.
Christopher Richardson
Think about it, user.
Ruger 870.
Josiah Mitchell
I didn't know Colt was UAW. Maybe I'll run into one of them the next time I'm up at Black Lake.
Jaxson Foster
No, Remington and Colt simply need to pull their shit together. The more companies, the competition, the better it is for the consumer. You're dumb. A strong domestic industry is good for our rights.
Hunter Rogers
>3x as thick as an 870
>A strong domestic industry
>Rustington >Colt If you want strong domestic industry, don't prop up failures of companies that repeatedly go bankrupt, pump out garbage firearms and or depend wholly on wefare payments from the government to stay afloat.
When shitty gun companies die, other stronger companies will fill in for their market share and expand.
The fuck did the mobsters expect after making labor costs quite literally impossible? Fuck unions.
Dylan Bell
Probably Remington, since the 870 and 700 are actually good when they aren't made by idiots. I'd rather see a different group buy them and fix them though, because I don't want to see companies like Ruger grow complacent from reduced competition, especially when they've grown and improved so much in the past decade and a half.
Colt isn't really offering much that can't be had elsewhere. If they fixed their shit, that would be nice, but it isn't going to happen. Someone will buy Colt out again, and it'll be put in charge of people who are fucking useless and Colt will do the same thing again.
Jaxon Price
Y'know, I think it'd almost be better if Remington just died completely, and the 870 and 700 became public domain, that way, any good small outfit or any company, could make clones of them, but make them good.
Imagine the market for 700 rifles and 870 shotguns growing to near AR15 levels, where there's a wide variety of different brands and parts for all kinds of tastes and needs, like you could build one out of various parts from the ground up.
Juan Price
Ironically I bet it were the unions sucking them dry.
Mason Ortiz
>stop pushing out new product >maintain government contract mindset even if you’re struggling to land any due to lack of innovation >charge high price for a carbine gas + 16” barrel during time when industry notm has passed your standards
Why did the employees not jump ship and go over to other places? The writing was on the wall, it was a matter of when.
David James
Based. Now we might get some proper Colts again.
Tyler Reyes
This same with King Cobra and M686. S&W revolver QC has always been better than Colt
Julian Davis
>Onions Sue Colt for Outsourcing Manufacturing >Spend 5 minutes wracking my brain and Googling what or who onion is slang for I really need to do something about my goddamn illiteracy.
Kayden Anderson
I don't understand how colt could be so retarded
They have the golden ticket, they are known for the most American rifle to ever exist and what do they do? Outsource manufacturing
Aaron Stewart
its an age of forgetting our fathers, user
Cooper Perry
your confusion is contagious, i thought you were saying onions thru the wordfilter i.e. calling unions basedboys
Ryder Gomez
>Outsource manufacturing
Now HOLD up.
Outsource does not mean exclusively giving employment to foreigners. Outsource can refer as contractors giving work to other groups. It is the same for the government, legal system, and all forms or skilled labor and work simply being moved to somewhere else or given to different people. An excellent example are factories in exiting states are being shut down due to politics or the cost of tax and moving to another state more affordable in both common sense and living.
Conservatives make more on average than liberals. Largely because we go into fields that are in demand and pay well. Whereas you dumbfucks work for McDonalds and demand they pay you $15 to flip a fucking burger. Then you fags have the gall to say we're voting against our interest when we don't vote for the faggot commie who wanted to raise our taxes so he could give Dequan a bigger welfare check and free medicare. Fuck you, the fuck are faggots like you doing on Jow Forums in the first place? The last place to vote for left wing faggots will be a weapons board
I hate unions with a passion but Colt had a contract and they broke it so they have no one to blame but themselves. This will be a slam dunk case
Brayden Roberts
What a coincidence most of the poorest states have the largest nigger population. And surely the fact that liberals congregate into large areas where wealthy businesses reside has no real bearing as well. Also, lets ignore the fact that states with lower populations will also bring in less money, also, lets ignore that you're a fucking idiot who wants to cite statistics without researching background but you're a liberal, I shouldn't expect intelligence from you. Now take some lead asprin
>What a coincidence most of the poorest states have the largest nigger population. It's almost as if they imported them by the boatload.
Jose Bennett
There's plenty of people that like having a traditionally styled 1911 made of good steel and with decent quality. Colt can fill that niche like no other if they'd simply not fuck up on the QC part.
