In the absence of a $1.6 billion state employees’ concession package, Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he will need to consider “systemic changes,” to the state’s relationship with labor.
“The short term savings were important obviously it would save us from having to make $700 million in cuts,“ Malloy said Tuesday at a press conference following his monthly commissioners meeting. “The part that was underappreciated I believe, the context which it was delivered, but nonetheless under appreciated, was the long term systemic change that brought about sustainability in the relationship between the state and its public employees.”
