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Connecticut State Workers need your help...
Posted on 12/16/2002 8:36:02 PM PST by syank
I am a Connecticut State Employee, and our Governor has issued us about 2800 lay offs right at Christmas set to take effect right after the new year, so many CT workers and families get a nice warm Christmas present for all our hard work we've done.
The Lay off's are permanent meaning none of the 2800 will be called back to work, and still the Governor has promised more lay offs after the first of the year...
Now, I am not getting laid off, I have 4 years on the job here, but many people I know are losing their jobs, many of these people have families, In my Department we are already dangerously short staffed, and he is laying off our whole last Academy class...
If he is willing to do this to Public saftey personel even after everything that has happened after 9-11 imagine what he is going to do to teachers and transportation workers...and if the Governor follows through with his promises I might get hit when he lays off more next month...
SO, I am asking for all your help..
A website has been instrumental in letting the Legislature here in Connecticut know we are against these Layoffs, Please spam the heck out of it!!
Once at this site, enter a Connecticut Zip Code, a prepared letter will pop up addressed to a local Representative, Just hit send!!
Please send as many letters as you can by December 18th!
This is the date the Governor has set for the special session..
Connecitcut Zipcodes!
Go Here!!
http://capwiz.com/cfepe/issues/alert/?alertid=922501&type=ST
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:36:02 PM PST
by
syank
To: syank
Errr...Are you sure you are on the right forum?
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:40:08 PM PST
by
spectre
To: syank
Their are 80-90,000 private sector people on the unemployment rolls here in Silicon Valley. Many busineses and jobs were taxed out of exisitence to support California's bloated bureaucracy.
Welcome to reality. Wish we could cut some of our sacred government payrolls here...
To: syank
My friend, welcome to the economy. Please get in line for your 36-49 weeks of unemployment checks courtesy of the federal government as that is the only obvious solution to your job loss. (sarcasm OFF)
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:42:25 PM PST
by
nhoward14
To: syank
You just signed up, and you think a bunch of Freepers will help you save your taxpayer funded "job"? I don't think so.
To: null and void
I am a LE officer, if you lay off all of us who do you suppose will transport all of your states prisoners, protect you when you come into Courthouses, arrest dangerous criminals, monitor parolees? I agree with you to a point, but all is not the same in computer chips and handcuffs...
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:45:26 PM PST
by
syank
To: syank
Paging Willie Green.
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:45:56 PM PST
by
Mark
To: nhoward14
Please get in line for your 36-49 weeks of unemployment checks courtesy of the federal government as that is the only obvious solution to your job loss.Amazing how quickly time flies. My last check is this week.
To: syank
The biggest problem these former state workers will have is that no one in his right mind would hire a government worker for a private sector job. Most bureaucrats are just not employable.
With that proviso aside, they can just join the queue and search for a job like the other millions of Americans have had to do in the past few years.
To: syank
State Budget Crisis
Protect State Employees
Governor John Rowland, in a meeting November 13 with representatives from the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), asked for the equivalent of $22,000 in give backs from each union state employee.
His proposed solution does not solve the state's budget problems, but does demand $89 million in give backs this year, $450 million dollars in annual give backs next fiscal year and an additional $450 million dollars in give backs the following fiscal year. That's over $22,000 dollars for each union state employee between now and June 30, 2005.
State employee leaders have joined human service activists, municipal leaders, and many others in calling on the Governor to address Connecticut's structural revenue shortfalls by asking multimillionaires and Connecticut's largest corporations to pay their fair share.
Contact your state representative and state senator today and ask them to pass solutions that don't balance the budget on the backs of state employees.
To: spectre
I feel your pain. We were cut to the bone before being told to cut 17% more. Like you, I'm in demand, but many of my coworkers are not.
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:47:17 PM PST
by
FreeInWV
To: syank
.."multimillionaires and Connecticut's largest corporations to pay their fair share.."
What's fair?
To: Fractal Trader
>>>The biggest problem these former state workers will have is that no one in his right mind would hire a government worker for a private sector job. Most bureaucrats are just not employable. <<<
But whenever the bureaucrats justify their laziness at taxpayers' expense, aren't they the first to claim that they're doing us all a favor because they could actually make load$ more money in the private sector...
To: FreeInWV
Someone told me to try this site for help, sorry I took up your time.. Thank you.
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:51:20 PM PST
by
syank
To: fight_truth_decay
fair = millionaire - $X million
To: syank
Never mind the snide remarks from these heartless people.....I, for one, am ready, willing and able to help.
I have provided a website for you. Just click on any of the links and look for "Classifieds" or "Employment".
Good luck and Merr
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y Christmas!
To: syank
Connecticut State Workers need your help... Ah, I love hearing weeping and gnashing of teeth.......
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:52:17 PM PST
by
adx
To: fight_truth_decay
I went to his web site and what little searching I did, I saw no party affiliation. Just a wild guess, is he a proud Demoncrat?
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posted on
12/16/2002 8:53:09 PM PST
by
Mark
To: fight_truth_decay
If you got, they want it. That's fair, ain't it?
To: Texas Eagle
What is more heartless:
Asking people to keep a government paying out a budget it cannot support and hence perpetuating and compounding the problem for all such state's residents in the future?
OR
Tough love where you push somebody into reality so that they can find a solution to their problem instead of a reprieve from dealing with it?
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