Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 1:27:53 GMT -6
Unions Wait Anxiously But Not Angrily For Malloy's Layoff Plan
It's a fair bet that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy would be private citizen Dan Malloy today if organized labor, especially state employee unions, had not manned the phones and pounded the pavement for his 2014 re-election.
Malloy left labor largely unscathed in last year's budget battles. But the song is different this year.
Without offering details in advance, Malloy is signaling scant pay raises, reduced benefits, restructured pensions and, worst of all for state employees, layoffs — all with no heads-up for the union leaders who pushed him past Republican Tom Foley.
The L-word hasn't surfaced much at the Capitol in recent years. Malloy struck a deal in 2011: two years of pay freezes and some health plan savings in exchange for four years of no layoffs. Also, the legislature is brimming with pro-labor Democrats.
Read more: www.courant.com/business/dan-haar/hc-haar-malloy-labor-budget-20160202-column.html
It's a fair bet that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy would be private citizen Dan Malloy today if organized labor, especially state employee unions, had not manned the phones and pounded the pavement for his 2014 re-election.
Malloy left labor largely unscathed in last year's budget battles. But the song is different this year.
Without offering details in advance, Malloy is signaling scant pay raises, reduced benefits, restructured pensions and, worst of all for state employees, layoffs — all with no heads-up for the union leaders who pushed him past Republican Tom Foley.
The L-word hasn't surfaced much at the Capitol in recent years. Malloy struck a deal in 2011: two years of pay freezes and some health plan savings in exchange for four years of no layoffs. Also, the legislature is brimming with pro-labor Democrats.
Read more: www.courant.com/business/dan-haar/hc-haar-malloy-labor-budget-20160202-column.html