DOWN RANGE TV Remington To Close H&R Plant

| | | From DOWN RANGE TV Jim Shepherd Remington To Close H&R Plant By Jim Shepherd Apr 8, 2008 - 1:19:36 AM It’s billed as a “manufacturing consolidation” but to the 200-plus workers at what used to be the H&R 1971 –now- Remington Arms’ Gardner, Massachusetts plant, it’s a closure. For most of them, it means outplacement assistance. That’s a corporate pseudonym for unemployment. Yesterday, confirming rumors that had been swirling about for the past three weeks, Remington’s CEO Tommy Milner issued a short press release saying that the Gardner plan would be closed by the end of 2008. “A number”

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