The Democratic governor of Connecticut where the legislature is also Democratic has a steep budget imbalance. The state agreed to a new deal with the public employee union that would save the state $1.6 billion over two years. Here’s the deal:
1. Wages frozen for two years.
2. After two years, 3 percent annual raises for three years.
3. A guarantee of no layoffs for four years.
How many out of work people do we know? How many folks are truly worried that layoffs are imminent? How many people do we know that would kill for the “no layoffs for four years” part of this deal alone?
Only Democrats could craft a deal as friendly to union labor as this one – who cares about all those workers who pay the bills?
The union rejected the deal today. Layoff letters will now go out to 7,500 employees with surely more to follow.
We can only hope that this will damage unions everywhere as well as their Democratic Party patrons.
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