Connecticut Assistant Attorneys General allowed to join public union

September 25, 2016

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To the editor:

The Yankee Institute recently called attention to the push by the state’s 170 Assistant Attorneys General to become public union members. Currently they earn about $150,000 a year or about the same as many Norwalk administrators. Even though newly hired AAG’s have supervisory roles (normally a disqualifier) the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations allowed the vote to go forward by mail ballot.

Currently six out of 10 Connecticut union workers work for the government. Reportedly this is a higher proportion than any other state. Some analysts have suggested Connecticut’s high proportion of government union workers effectively precludes budget reform.

Peter Berman

Comments

Isabelle Hargrove

September 25, 2016

I would be very curious to know what the estimated cost to taxpayers of enlarging the public union ranks will be over the next 10 years… Will voters ever rebel over the rampant mismanagement of our tax dollars? I would also be curious to know what Senator Duff and Mr. Ehlers think about this…

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Piberman

September 26, 2016

Well some years ago the Yankee Institute published data on highest annual pensions by CT retired public employees. Some UCON profs had pensions exceeding $300,000 annually (No misprint). And we know what action Sen. Duff did with that revealing information. So we know what to expect from Sen. Duff.

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