Malloy should be following the examples being set in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio where those governors are doing the right thing by taking on unions to tackle the real cause of our problems.
He bloviates endlessly about how he is reducing the size of the state by merging several agencies, but if you have the same number of people on the payroll, you have the same costs, no matter what you call the department they work for.
I believe this is just a shell game Malloy is using to give the impression he is downsizing the state without laying off even one state employee.
His Bridgeport Town Hall meeting, of last night, bears his statement of no layoffs for state employees. "We must all sacrifice".
In my opinion, Malloy is simply a puppet for the same unions who elected him.
"Dance Danno Dance "
Perhaps the greatest error regarding the union movement came in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order to grant all federal government employees the right to unionize and collectively bargain with departments and agencies - ( SEIU) - (NEA ).
ReplyDeleteThis accounts for the rise in power of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) with its 1.8 million members and the deceptively named National Education Association (NEA), a union, the largest in the nation. It has 3.2 million members and employs more than 550 staff.