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Message: [QUOTE="JohnFSilver, post: 3594041, member: 1618"] The governor could call an emergency and reopen the union contract. The state employees deserve the wage increase. They have forgone raises for so long, ridiculously long, and have had health care costs massively eat into their pay. Either your workforce is valuable, or it isn’t. Pension obligations for excessive comps of yesteryear is what is killing the budget, not headcount. Lamont is probably right as a businessman, insane to raise salary increase in era of declining revenue. But they didn’t do right by the employees last 10 plus years. Look at the fiasco with services during this crisis. High stress, and you don’t want to pay them? [/QUOTE]