March 28, 1991   LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES   11:00 a.m.

PRESIDING CHAIRMAN:          Senator Maloney                     Representative Adamo

COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT:SENATORS: Robertson REPRESENTATIVES:   Betkoski, Dargan, Emmons,Gambardella, Joyce,      Loffredo, Miller, Pudlin, Radcliffe


SEN. MALONEY:  Tony Madden.

ANTHONY MADDEN:  Couple things came out pretty good

    here.  I like some of the stuff that's going on

    between you and program review, I hope it works.

    First of all the tax, tax it.  Because then maybe

    you'll get a check because the government is going

    to want their part of it.  If that's what were

    talking about the taxes.  Tax that too please.  But

    there's so many things really.  You've met with us

    so many times, we've come up so many times, we've

    been to the governor's office.  We met with Mr.

    Arcudi, like Ken said we're the past we're the

    present we're the future, which ever way you want

    to put it.

    I have hearings, I'm in 308 benefits which is the

    second entry funds.  I receive a check maybe every

    two months, three months, whichever time they feel

    like paying.  Where's the weekly pay?  Honest to

    God the papers are here I can show the checks.

    They stopped paying me in November.  December,

    January February, March 22nd I got a check.  So

    where's their fair judgement?  Number two I've been

    trying to tell Commissioner Verelli down in

    Bridgeport for the past few years they had me at

    the wrong pay rate.

    I was making $10.88 an hour when I was in Moore

    Special Tool in Bridgeport.  I tried to go back to

    work after I injured myself, I was in Mt. Sanai

    Hospital, Dr. Fox was one of the doctors who

    treated me.  I took a pay cut to try to take my job

    back.  They made me a sweeper.  I couldn't take

    lifting metal chips, it didn't work out.  I wound

    up coming back out because I herniated the disk and

    now today the nerve is giving me problems so the

    doctor's playing with me again.  But I'm still in

    the same place every three months I'm having

    hearings.

    I mean they're talking about a backlog, if you keep

    coming every three months you're going to have a

    big backlog.  The papers are here, I told you about

    the voluntary agreement.  Well, the voluntary

    agreement I don't know what ever happened to it

    because it's not even discussed in the formal

    decision.  Remember I had explained to Mr. O'Donnel

    at the time.  It's not even mentioned about me

    seeing the doctor or anything else.  I still have

    no idea today where that went.

    I seen Dr. Stanzu August 22nd and I'm still

    waiting.  I mean the commissioner, I'm really kind

    of frustrated as to which way I'm going here.  As

    to who do you go to for an answer if the

    commissioner that you're dealing with won't answer

    you.  I have these formal decisions, I mean the

    paper are here, I'm not going to tell you this and

    not have something to back it up.  It's there and

    as far as getting the commission to move on and

    getting them help, if they need more staff, give em

    more staff I don't know what the problem is but the

    system's not going to work mostly until we get

    somebody in there to make sure the job's being

    done.

    The transfer to light duty, I got transferred to

    light duty in my company and they gave me a layoff

    slip.  And they have light duty.  I took them in on

    a discrimination, and I tried and wound up with a

    transfer to light duty and I lost the case with the

    commissioner.  Now I have no way to do anything

    about it because my attorney waited too long to

    contest it.  There's just so many gimmicks and ways

    for them to twist these laws around I don't know

    how we're gonna, not how we're gonna, how yous are

    going to straighten it out because there's nobody

    really wants to look into it.

    There's the accountability of the commissioners and

    make sure there enforcing the laws that are on the

    books.  If you go in front of them and you don't

    have your papers done properly they could terminate

    you like that.  But if they're messing up you have

    no place to go.  That's were I'm stuck right now, I

    have no place to go.  I believe in my opinion the

    commissioner is messing off.  What do I do?  Thank

    you.