In a turnabout, Governor Patrick breaks with unions on health care plans

The Boston Globe reports:

For much of his first term, Governor Deval Patrick helped protect public employee unions from dramatic increases in their members’ health care insurance costs.


No more.

Yesterday, Patrick joined House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo in calling for a significant curtailing of organized labor’s influence over the health care plans of municipal employees, retirees, and elected officials, proposing that cities and towns receive far greater power to enact major changes without union assent.

No word yet from Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on this one.