Committee Room Filled with Green and Blue Shirts
The budget conference committee is holding just its first meeting today, but it's already attracting a big crowd. The meeting is set to start at 11 o'clock.
Green-shirted members of AFSCME have taken most of the seats in 412 East, the State Capitol room where the Joint Conference Committee normally meets. Filling out the room are blue uniformed Department of Corrections employees.
Among the AFSCME complaints is that the Assembly budget shrinks the state employee compensation reserve, cuts shared revenue to local governments, and eliminates corrections worker jobs included in the governor's budget proposal.
See an AFSCME memo to members about the Assembly Republican budget here.
