The Connecticut General Assembly comes to a close June 8 at
midnight. Between now and then, you can help make a difference
by calling your legislators and urging them to pass two bills
of critical importance:
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SB 1111: This bill
would restore to City of Waterbury
Employees (including Local 353 and
Local 818) full rights to binding arbitration under the Municipal
Employee Relations Act (MERA). The right to fair and neutral
binding arbitration was taken away in 2001 under the provisions
of Special Act 01-1. It’s time to right this wrong and
give Waterbury
city workers the same rights every other municipal worker
has.
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SB 94: This is the
“Clean Contracting” reform bill that would help put an end to
corrupt privatization. SB 94 requires state agencies to submit a cost-benefit
analysis before they could privatize any functions. It also requires state
agencies to explain the impact of any service contract on the public and the
workers currently performing the job and bidding contractors to show their
fitness for gaining a state contract.
Please call your State Senator and your State
Representative this weekend. It’s
important to contact both. Since they will be working
at the Capitol to come to closure on the budget, contact them
via their Capitol phone numbers. Click here
to locate your State Rep. and State Senator. Scroll down the
page, fill in your street address and you will be provided
with the phone numbers you need.
