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After decade-long fight, Trumbull police officers in Connecticut win back pensions
https://www.afscme.org/blog/after-decade-long-fight-trumbull-police-officers-in-connecticut-win-back-pensions
By Renee Hamel, Council 4 · Monday, June 03, 2024
HARTFORD, Conn. – Members of the Trumbull Police Union AFSCME Local 1745 (Council 4) accomplished a rare feat. After losing their defined benefit pension plan in 2014, they won their pensions back 10 years later.
Since the Great Recession, municipalities have been cutting pensions, especially for police officers. The town of Trumbull, in southwest Connecticut, was no exception. When members of Local 1745 started contract negotiations in 2011, the town had already begun its campaign to eliminate their pensions.
“Taking away pensions from municipal workers, especially cops and firefighters, was the political flavor of the day, not just in Trumbull but across the state and nationwide,” said Detective Sgt. Bobby Coppola, a 24-year Trumbull police officer who served as the local’s president from 2006 to 2022 and is currently the local’s treasurer.
The town offered several drastic proposals that eliminated pensions for new hires, while severely diluting existing pensions for others.
FULL story at link above.