Mitt Romney missed the deadline yesterday to fund the negotiated contract with the Massachusetts Community Colleges faculty and professional staff (MCCC), thus failing to implement the agreed upon terms which HIS PEOPLE had negotiated with the union negotiating team, and which the MCCC members approved earlier this fall.
The new contract would have given a modest 3% raise (for 3 years) to hardworking state employees, but nothing else. Many other issues that union members thought were important were left out. With the Romney bamboozlers' "take it or leave it" attitude, the union negotiators decided they should take it to the members for a vote. The members approved the new contract.
Then Romney refuses to follow through! Last time he refused to fund a negotiated contract because it had been negotiated under a previous governor. This time, it was negotiated under himself by his own people! Unbelievable.
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