The SEIU is once again bullying anyway who stands in its way, refusing to allow workers a vote seeking new representation.  Last month I joined 80 workers who want out of the SEIU protesting outside of state offices in Wethersfield.  From the New Haven Register:

WETHERSFIELD — A vote on union representation before 2015 for some 6,000 state workers is in the balance as both sides on the issue offered legal arguments Monday before the state Board of Labor Relations — a matter that has been pending since August.

The challenge to four unions is part of the fallout from the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition contract, which took two votes, the threat of thousands of layoffs and revamped grounds rules before it passed in late summer.

State Rep. Chris Coutu, R-Norwich, who is seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney in the 2nd congressional district, came out in support of the protesting workers.

 "... the unions are the first ones to say, ‘just let us vote’ and today, for some reason, they won’t let these good people vote and I think there is something wrong with that. You can’t have it both ways,” said Coutu.

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