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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday helium doesn't enactment a vague measure passed successful the last minutes of the legislative session that creates a $3 cardinal money that could financially payment striking national workers, signaling helium would volition apt veto it.
"Everything I cognize astir it, I’m not going to enactment it," helium told reporters during a post-session quality conference, calling lawmakers' tactics to walk the measure "too cute by half."
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Senate Democrats mostly avoided describing the measure arsenic supporting striking workers. Rather, Sen. Julie Kusher repeatedly said during the late-night statement the measure would assistance "low-wage workers" and State Comptroller Sean Scanlon would robust retired the details.
Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont waves aft delivering his State of the State code successful Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Minutes aft the vote, a conjugation of unions praised the authorities arsenic a measurement toward creating an assistance money for striking workers. Ed Hawthorne, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, said specified a money would "level the playing tract for moving people" and let them to onslaught without facing foreclosures, evictions and repossessions.
Lamont said helium supports unions but was unenthusiastic astir utilizing taxpayers' wealth to subsidize strikers.
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New York and New Jersey let striking workers to use for unemployment benefits, a connection that failed this league successful Connecticut.
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