Now We Know – Malloy Calls for Taking Away Fundamental Collective Bargaining Rights

Jun 29

jonpeltoMalloy, State Employees , , 12 Comments

Malloy slams knife into the back of Democratic Party - follows Wisconsin – with No hearing, No negotiations, No nothing:

As CTMirror and others are reporting, Governor Malloy is informing Legislative Democrats that he wants a new law “changing the way state employee pensions are calculated and unilaterally attempting to reduce employee sick days while freezing longevity payments.

Even if passed, the new law on pensions would not have any impact until the state’s collective bargaining agreement on health and retirement benefits ends in 2017 and even then it would be a matter for collective bargaining.  The reduction in sick days and longevity would take place as present union contracts end – but again – would be a matter for collective bargaining.

So why do this now?

Did he simply lie when he said he supported collective bargaining?

Is he such a bully that he can’t control himself?

Does he want to destroy Connecticut’s Democratic Party?

Roy Occhigrosso explains to the CTMirror that “None of this is contradictory” and that Malloy remains a “strong supporter” of the rights of employees to collectively bargain.”

Meanwhile, there is no word from Nancy Wyman, Malloy’s Lt. Governor, who has devoted much of her public life to helping support Connecticut’s public employees and was added to the Malloy ticket, in part, to shore up support from union members.

My response:

I’ve said it before; will say it again – if a Republican proposed these things we’d be in the streets calling for impeachment.

This is no longer an issue in which reasonable people can disagree.

Dan Malloy has defaulted on his ability to lead by walking away from the fundamental principles and beliefs of the Democratic Party.

His actions are doing tremendous damage to our government, our priorities and to the very people who elected him.

Now will Connecticut’s other Democratic elected officials remain silent?

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  • Rita

    The truth is, this whole concessions package was negotiated behind union representatives backs. The truth needs to be revealed. Pharmacies across Ct have been posting notices to state employees that, according to the SEBAC agreement, they would no longer be able to fill their ongoing prescriptions. There is one not so glaringly obvious point to be made here. These notices were posted BEFORE the union members voted. How did this happen?

  • Kay

    Governor Malloy is a State Government Terrorist. He is acting much more like a dictator than an elected official. Although not as extreme,yet, as foreign counterparts, he is an American born terrorist with only his ego of concern to him.
    How many state employee families have suffered because of this up and down roller coaster ride Malloy is taking them on? What about the future of the children of these employees? What about the bouts of depression the parents are having that the children are witnessing?
    The contract that was put forward was reasonable as it could be. And, a “simple” majority voted for it. But, you can bet your boots that Malloy new it would not pass and the Unions that would be the problem.
    Connecticut government is being run as a shell game. I say that as a whole gathering of “suits” is taking place in Mansfield along with all the NewsTeams to “celebrate” the creation of a FAUX town center. Either you have a town center and the community spirit that goes with it or you don’t. Mansfield DOES NOT. How much state money is being wasted on this fiasco?
    I’m just tired of the whole mess. I’m tired of the anger in the state. I’m tired of the “bought and paid for” comments on the Courant site, as well as other news sites. I’m tired of so few people having a pride ina state that I once held as the pinnacle of my “younger life ideals.”
    I’m just tired!

  • Greg

    “Did he simply lie when he said he supported collective bargaining?” He is an attorney and doesn’t know how to lie or tell the truth, just convenient words. You do not blame a lion because it wants to hunt, so do not blame an attorney that doesn’t deal with its own truth and lies.

    Is he such a bully that he can’t control himself? Most definitely yes, he seems born for the role. This was seen by some when he was a mayor, and keeping with my jungle analogy a leopard does not change his spots.

    Does he want to destroy Connecticut’s Democratic Party? In success (at the polls) breeds failure. Again, think of the jungle when one species say Lions population grows a whole lot in good times, then starts to over hunt its pray just a small disease or bad weather will make them go to historic low populations. I know I was suppose to use pachyderms in the example but ….

    And the most important and I will bet dollars to donuts “Now will Connecticut’s other Democratic elected officials remain silent?” Yes, but I wish it was not so and am sadden by it (I do not think this, lack of support, would of happen even 10 years ago). He is their alpha dog after all.

    Greg

    • Sharewhut

      Greg- nature versus nurture.
      He wasn’t born to be a bully. He was bullied all through his youth, by virtue of his disabilities. Probably by the ‘jocks’ who are now the cops and CO’s kicking sand in his face now.
      But now he’s done the political version of the Tony Atlas program, and the 98 pound weakling can now bloody the bullies’ noses and send them running home crying.
      At least in HIS mind.
      And those are the scariest kind.

  • Jackie

    @ Rita

    It was a foregone conclusion that this TA would pass. They never dreamed it wouldn’t pass. We have always given back by passing the TAs in the past, except for Roland. They won’t accept the vote because their adgenda is: table the vote, then announce the units and number of layoffs, then go after our collective bargaining rights, then resurrect the SEBAC deal and send it to a revote and it will pass out of fear and intimidation. Three of them have already happened. Wait for the last one. there’s another deal with malloy that they think we are too stupid to figure out. We are not stupid and never were. We have finally said enogh is enough, and that is truly what our no vote means.

  • William

    It’s pure sabre rattling by Malloy. The pressure will be put on State employees and after the layoff notices scare people as well as the privitization threats coupled with Sebac changing the threshold for ratification passage then they take a re-vote and pass the deal.

    I think it’s good old fashion hard ball politics.

    And I hope it works.

    I admire Malloy for it to be honest.

  • DrHunterSThompson

    Nancy Wyman is a huge turncoat. I would have never guessed. Either that or she’s shaking in her heels out of fear of the hot head bully.

    One and done. Unions don’t forget.

    • Sharewhut

      Or she’s hanging on by her fingertips waiting for Dan to join Obama, or if he managed to gut the Contract Oversight joined Johnny, so she can do her Jodi routine.. There’d be worse ways to end her career.
      But we do need a Repub. Guv to restore balance to the force

  • ishka

    From the very start: Governor demanded 2 billion in concessions and the unions said only cost cutting measures would be negotiate, such as sales tax on Amazon9 i still have email from sal luciano). Governor demanded budget passed asap with big hole in budget , weeks before any budget in my history has ever passed. The General Assembly went with it passed the budget. Weeks after the budget was passed sebac informed us of the tentative agreement. Most rejected the deal specificly the health care. Pmembers out of fear voted yes to prevent being laid off. Almost all of the membership knew and accepted the concessions which they thought would be, wage freezes, loss of longevity, higher pension contributions, furloughs, higher co-pays for medical and pharmacy.personally my retirement begins july 1st and this deal will be better for me, because i get to keep my health care until 2022, but I still object to it even though now I don not have a horse in the race. if anything can be salvage from this is that the majority of the membership are willing to offer substantial concessions; but the shared sacrafice must truely be shared: management and appointed staff, and spending cuts, which sound reasonable. My hope is that Governor Malloy leaves a door open for negotiations and that sebac listens to the membership. We didn’t need to go to this place tomorrow.

  • Jackie

    @ Rita

    It was a foregone conclusion that this TA would pass. They never dreamed it wouldn’t pass. We have always given back by passing the TAs in the past, except for Roland. They won’t accept the vote because their adgenda is: table the vote, then announce the units and number of layoffs, then go after our collective bargaining rights, then resurrect the SEBAC deal and send it to a revote and it will pass out of fear and intimidation. Three of them have already happened. Wait for the last one. there’s another deal with malloy that they think we are too stupid to figure out. We are not stupid and never were. We have finally said enogh is enough, and that is truly what our no vote means.

    • Sharewhut

      Won’t go to a revote. They won’t chance it after getting spanked first time around. Rule change and gang of 15 decision. Layoff slips will have shot their bolt. 6,000 trying desperately to hold on and a whole lot more than that breathing a sigh of relief ,for the moment. At that point they’d be struggling to get any majority at all. There were a lot more ‘iffy’ yes votes than ‘iffy’ no votes, now some of the fear will be removed and people will vote how they wanted to the last time but were too afraid.

  • Sharewhut

    US Senate standards are 60% to stop a filibuster….. And this ended up closer to 55-45 .
    Standards are set, shouldn’t go change them after the fact.