Governor Malloy requested to meet with SEBAC and SEBAC accepted that request. A meeting date is being sought.
This meeting is long overdue and we look forward to a conversation regarding future budget expectations and how to find savings within the current operations.
AFT-CT has released a statement regarding the upcoming meeting between the Governor and SEBAC.
The governor’s administration and the state employee union coalition have agreed to meet. We do not yet have a date, nor do we know who will represent the administration; we hope to have those details soon.
Click here for a copy of the Malloy Administration’s response letter.
This is NOT a meeting to discuss reopening our coalition’s 2011 agreement. Instead, we made clear to the administration we intend to discuss the root causes of Connecticut's budget woes and offer suggestions for short and long-term savings.
We remain opposed to balancing the state budget on the backs of public service providers or working families who depend on us every day. We remain committed to protecting Connecticut’s quality of life, which is clearly threatened by cuts to vital services and state employees’ jobs.
The governor escalated those threats by saying that a “very, very substantial number” of state employees would receive pink slips “in a couple weeks.”
The legislature voted to close the current fiscal year’s budget gap with deep cuts to essential service, yet huge shortfalls are still predicted for the next several years. The revenue problem that we and our allies have been calling attention to is clearly real; but the governor and lawmakers have so far refused to listen.
Join us in urging better choices rather than more painful cuts that will fall hardest on working families and make inequality worse here in Connecticut.
Make your voice heard because our state’s quality of life is at stake.
Additionally, the Governor's Office will meet with SEBACs Pension Cmte on April 6th regarding pension funding changes. This is NOT pension benefit changes, this is to discuss the competing recommendations on how best to fully fund the Pension Fund.
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