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House Sends Labor Agreement to Senate
The question now is
Will the State Senate Republicans Have the
Votes to
Reject the Contract and Save the State and
its Taxpayers?
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July 25, 2017
From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Org
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
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House Sends Labor Agreement to Senate
CT
News Junkie by
Christine Stuart Jul 24, 2017
Posted to Labor, Legal, State Budget, Special Session, Pensions, State Capitol, Transparency
HARTFORD, CT The House voted 78 to 72,
mostly along party lines, in favor of the agreement the Malloy administration
reached with a coalition of state labor unions.
Rep. John Hampton, D-Simsbury, was the only
Democratic lawmaker to vote against the deal, which
still needs to pass the state Senate.
Hampton said he
opposed the extension of the contract another five years to 2027, the
guaranteed four years of protection from layoffs, and the raises in the last
two years of the agreement.
He said he felt the deal would prolong the
fiscal crisis.
Republican legislative leaders agreed but failed to amend the
resolution with their own budget proposal, which would have attempted to get
rid of collective bargaining.
Continue reading at http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/house_sends_labor_agreement_to_senate/
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The following is by Chris Powell of the
Journal Inquirer
EXCERPT In exchange state employee benefits would be locked in for
another 10 years and layoffs would be prohibited for four. There is no benefit
to the public in tying the governments hands for that
long. Indeed, there is no public interest in giving state governments own
employees such priority within government in the first place. No services to
the public, not even services to the most innocent and helpless needy, come
with such guarantees. Services are always discretionary.
Thats why, with state government at the breaking
point, the General Assembly should defeat the governors deal with the unions,
as the unusually large Republican minorities in the General Assembly maintain,
and make structural changes in state government, including the direct
legislation of the costs and terms of government employment, achieving far
greater savings. The governors deal with the unions
signifies only continued subordination of the government to a mere special
interest, subordination in which the people of Connecticut must ask the unions for
permission even to have a government.
Read complete article at http://www.journalinquirer.com/public/if-legislature-rejects-union-deal-democracy-can-be-restored/article_7927d79c-6e11-11e7-a90c-8fd33e315754.html
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State Senate Republican President Pro
Tempore Len Fasano has made the 30 State employee
union contracts available to the public at the following web link
http://ctsenaterepublicans.com/2017/07/state-employee-wage-contracts/
