by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The state comptroller’s new effort to curb the skyrocketing costs of controversial “compounded medicine” prescriptions has prompted a labor-management dispute with state employee unions that is headed for binding arbitration on Sept. 23. Taxpayer...
by rondelord | Jun 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Health Insurance, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
This is a particularly bad year to put more fiscal stress on towns. Hats off to House Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Minority Leader Themis Klarides for apparently blocking a bill that would have done so. The bill, passed by the Senate 25-11 earlier in the week, has two...