The multi-million-dollar settlement of damages arising from former Gov. John G. Rowland’s illegal layoffs of unionized state employees will be ratified without a public hearing or, most likely, a debate by either chamber of the General Assembly.
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The selling of a $100 million labor settlement
He’s struck a multi-million-dollar deal to settle a protracted civil rights case by state employee unions against former Gov. John G. Rowland. Now, all Attorney General George Jepsen has to do is sell it to a cash-strapped legislature.
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Rowland’s violation of union rights to cost state millions
Nearly 11 years after John G. Rowland’s resignation, Connecticut is being asked to accept a multi-million-dollar settlement of damages arising from the former Republican governor’s layoffs of more than 2,000 unionized state employees, an act deemed illegal by a federal appeals court.
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UTC deal draws cautious responses at Capitol
Is it OK to offer big tax relief to a corporation that retains the option to cut thousands of jobs in the years to come?
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Malloy seeks tax relief to trigger $500M expansion for UTC
United Technologies Corp. would launch a major $500 million investment in its research, training and corporate facilities later this year in exchange for $400 million in tax relief over the next two decades under a deal Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Wednesday.
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U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Rowland appeal in union layoffs case
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Gov. John G. Rowland’s appeal regarding a ruling that his administration used layoffs to punish state employee unions in 2003. The case now heads back to U.S. District Court in Hartford, where Rowland will file a motion to dismiss the case, according to a written statement released Monday through his attorney.
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Risking second guessing, Jepsen opens negotiations in union case against Rowland
Attorney General George Jepsen’s decision Monday to withdraw his U.S. Supreme Court appeal and accept an invitation to open settlement negotiations with state employee unions over their claim for damages against former Gov. John G. Rowland won immediate praise from the public-sector unions that have been cool if not critical toward the first-term Democrat.