Lamaont Administration Reaches Deal with SEBAC

Governor Ned Lamont’s administration has reached tentative contract agreements with 35 state employee bargaining units covering the bulk of the state’s unionized workforce, union leaders announced Tuesday.

The deals, if ratified by the memberships, would affect approximately 43,000 union workers throughout the state.

“The Lamont administration is pleased to have a tentative agreement that honors the state’s fiscal priorities through positive and productive negotiations with our state’s workforce,” Office of Policy and Management Secretary Jeffrey Beckham, the governor’s budget director, wrote in a statement released earlier today. “The process for ratification by SEBAC will now begin, and it is a process we will respect. Further details on the agreement will be provided upon final ratification and submittal to the Connecticut General Assembly for approval.”

Details, such as wage increases, were not been released but the package does include a voluntary prescription drug program that will save employees taking specialty drugs hundreds or even thousands of dollars annually according to a statement released by the union.