HARTFORD – Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) issued the following statement today regarding the end of a Pratt & Whitney labor union strike that began over three weeks ago on May 5:
“We applaud the 3,100 members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 700 for their courage and resilience in striking to successfully secure more wage, job, and retirement security in their new four-year contract with Pratt & Whitney. Striking is never an easy decision to make, and it is often less an easy decision to endure. But union membership – which was once the hallmark of America’s middle class – continues to prove its value in securing fair wages and working conditions for the quarter-million unionized workers in Connecticut, which has one of the highest union memberships in the country. Senate Democrats will always stand on the side of the middle-class working men and women in Connecticut in demanding fair wages, working conditions, health care and retirements for those who work and sacrifice for the betterment of our state and our nation.”
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