The State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) is the organization that negotiates YOUR healthcare and retirement benefits, as well as all of Connecticut’s other state employees. SEBAC is a coalition comprised of all of the unions representing Connecticut’s state employees.

With the current SEBAC agreement set to expire on June 30, 2027, preparations for the next round of negotiations are now underway. This may impact your heathcare and retirement. Updates about those negotiations will be posted in our CSU-AAUP newsroom.

History

State employees in Connecticut were not granted formal collective bargaining rights until 1975. In 1980 several unions representing state employees formed a coalition called the Pension Coordinating Committee (PCC). This coalition made it possible for state employees across unions to negotiate as one for better benefits for all, rather than requiring that the state negotiate separate agreements with each union.

In 1981 the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations ruled that pension benefits are considered a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. In 1984 the first pension agreements were established with the coalition. In 1986 legislation was passed that agreements on both pensions and healthcare issues would be bargained with a coalition of all the unions representing state employees—thereby creating the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC). The first SEBAC agreement was signed in 1989.

To this day, Connecticut is one of only four states that explicitly allow state employees to collectively bargain on the issue of retirement benefits.

In 1997 a ground-breaking 20-year pension and health care agreement was signed.  When it expired in 2017 another 10-year agreement was made. That agreement comes to an end in 2027.