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GA: Five-Year Union Deal Calls for Job Security, Wage Freezes, Cost Savings, 401(k)

Hartford Courant: State employees would receive no general wage increases for three years and pay more for their pensions and health care benefits under a tentative deal with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that would save the state more than $1.5 billion over the next two years, officials said Monday.

A 14-page draft summary, obtained by The Courant, says the first two years of the five-year deal would include a hard freeze with no wage or so-called step increases. That would also include three furlough days in each of the first two years.

In the third year, there would be a one-time payment instead of any wage increases, according to the draft summary. State employees would then receive pay increases of 3.5 percent in each of the fourth and fifth years.

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