Posted on 05/16/2011 7:31:03 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
HARTFORD— Capping months of secretive talks, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state-employee union leaders reached a deal Friday to save $1.6 billion over the next two years in exchange for a promise not to lay off unionized workers for the next four years.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
“Malloy came up short of his goal of $2 billion in concessions and savings over two years, but the $400 million shortfall would be covered by spending cuts and better-than-expected tax collections.”
LOL
Better than expected tax collections, when businesses are leaving the state in droves??? And what spending cuts does he expect to make? CT Congress just went through a long stretch of negotiations and barely were able to agree to the tax cuts they got.
This whole exercise was enacted to get the no-layoffs-for-four-years agreement.
Union bosses control Connecticut...
Connecticut has a shadow government.. a Union Junta... a cadre of thuggs..
Connecticut does NOT have an actual government anymore..
Kind of like; Wisconsin and Michigan.. only worse..
Employers need to step back and reassess the whole picture. Employees do not dictate employment terms.
Publicly employed labor is even worse. Why bargain with these unions at all? We need to peel these leeches off of the backs of taxpayers.
Do you think about who you elect?? After the anti-income tax rally in Hartford back in '92, I thought the voters would get smart, but I guess we got SMART and left the state.
1992 is so long ago, but I think there's a time that the DUMBOCRATS in CT will feel the rath of the voters -- and maybe Mallory is going to be the catalyst. He is NO Bill O'Neil or Ella Grasso (I voted for Ella, her husband was my principal.)
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