In large measure, city unions in Waterbury have gotten exactly what they feared when they vehemently opposed legislation giving the state unprecedented control over getting the chronically mismanaged municipality’s finances back on track.
In the less than 14 months since state lawmakers approved Waterbury’s takeover, the state oversight board charged with pulling the city from the brink of bankruptcy has forced unions into millions of dollars in concessions, often by flexing its extraordinary power to serve as the binding arbitration panel in collective bargaining disputes.
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