By Keith M. Phaneuf
Connecticut’s labor leaders insist the writing is on the wall.
Barring a dramatic new development, they say, state employees will be asked to grant wage and benefit concessions for the third time in seven years.
Perhaps the request will come this spring. Perhaps it will come in 2017 — just after the next state election. In some smaller ways it already has begun.
But that doesn’t mean that workers are ready to endorse more givebacks.



