Month: July 2017
Looney E-News: Good Jobs News
Senator Duff E-News: CT Getting Stronger and Moving Forward
Senator Larson E-News: Jobs Bill Signed; Local College Prep
Senator Winfield E-News: Free Friday Flicks in the Parks
Statements from Senate President Pro Tempore Looney and Senate Majority Leader Duff on the Approval of Labor Concessions by Connecticut State Employees
Statements from Senate President Pro Tempore Looney and Senate Majority Leader Duff on the Approval of Labor Concessions by Connecticut State Employees
Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) today released the following statements regarding the vote by members of the state employees’ unions to ratify the agreement reached with the state:
“I applaud the hardworking men and women who voluntarily voted for significant contractual givebacks and structural changes to our labor agreements,” said Senator Looney. “Independent analysts confirm that this agreement makes important long-term changes to our state employee pension and benefit programs resulting in significant savings for taxpayers—roughly $24 billion over the next 20 years.
“The Senate will debate the agreement on the floor and hold a vote. I urge its passage.”
“This is the most critical piece of the budget equation, and without it the consequences would have been grave,” said Senator Duff. “As a result, Connecticut taxpayers will save $24 billion. For us to solve Connecticut’s problems, all parties must have skin in the game. I want to thank all of the workers who voted in favor of this plan.
“This agreement is the latest step toward making government more affordable and more efficient. We’ve already taken significant steps to reduce the size of government and fund our long-term pension obligations for our current workforce.”
Statements from Senate President Pro Tempore Looney and Senate Majority Leader Duff on the Approval of Labor Concessions by Connecticut State Employees
Statements from Senate President Pro Tempore Looney and Senate Majority Leader Duff on the Approval of Labor Concessions by Connecticut State Employees
Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) today released the following statements regarding the vote by members of the state employees’ unions to ratify the agreement reached with the state:
“I applaud the hardworking men and women who voluntarily voted for significant contractual givebacks and structural changes to our labor agreements,” said Senator Looney. “Independent analysts confirm that this agreement makes important long-term changes to our state employee pension and benefit programs resulting in significant savings for taxpayers—roughly $24 billion over the next 20 years.
“The Senate will debate the agreement on the floor and hold a vote. I urge its passage.”
“This is the most critical piece of the budget equation, and without it the consequences would have been grave,” said Senator Duff. “As a result, Connecticut taxpayers will save $24 billion. For us to solve Connecticut’s problems, all parties must have skin in the game. I want to thank all of the workers who voted in favor of this plan.
“This agreement is the latest step toward making government more affordable and more efficient. We’ve already taken significant steps to reduce the size of government and fund our long-term pension obligations for our current workforce.”
Statement of State Senator Cathy Osten, Senate Co-Chair of the Appropriations Committee, on the Approval of Labor Concessions by Connecticut State Employees
Statement of State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague), Senate Co-Chair of the Appropriations Committee, on the Approval of Labor Concessions by Connecticut State Employees:
“I’m grateful to the tens of thousands of men and women working for the State of Connecticut for making a personal sacrifice that will help balance a state budget deficit that they had no role in creating.
“As they have in the past, Connecticut’s state employees have stepped up to plate and voted to create hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for the State of Connecticut—savings that will be used to fund municipal aid, education, social services, transportation and other state programs. These programs would have seen further, devastating cuts without these savings.
“Now it is the legislature’s turn to accept these concessions in the same good faith that they were negotiated, and to pass a bipartisan budget that the people of Connecticut want and expect from their elected representatives.
“Again, I thank our state employees for stepping up and providing the cost-saving concessions that they always have.”
Senator McCrory E-News: Holding Absentee Landlords Responsible
Senator Winfield in the News: Editorial: Ending solitary confinement for many prisoners the right thing to do
Editorial: Ending solitary confinement for many prisoners the right thing to do
With a stroke of the pen, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy inked legislation into law that provides more humane treatment of Connecticut’s incarcerated citizens in what ACLU of Connecticut Executive Director David McGuire calls “an important step toward justice.”
Legislation that prohibits the state Department of Correction from holding any person under the age of 18 in solitary confinement becomes effective Jan. 1.
Read the full editorial at the New Haven Register.