City councilors or selectmen have brought it on themselves. All they have ever done is
give, give, giveinto the union. There is a city that pays an officer 500 bucks more a year for wearing their name plate.
Your Connecticut city councilors do not have the balls to fix it, they are the blame in every city. If they ever do away with the pensions they will after a while screw up the 401K. It will start out 1 to 1 and a few years later end up 6 to 1 with the 6 coming out of the tax payer.
You lose!
Do not blame the teachers, firemen, public works, all they did was ask for and your elected officials gave it to them.