Unions Struggle For Resolution

Connecticut Public Radio | By WNPR Staff

Published June 28, 2011 at 8:22 AM EDT

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State employee Union leaders met with reporters yesterday to discuss what options are still available to them now that enough rank and file union members voted to kill an agreement with Governor Dannell Malloy that would have saved the state 1.6 billion dollars over the next two years. Governor Malloy says thousands of state employee layoffs could begin as early as next week. Joining us by phone this morning is Larry Dorman.

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