State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, reacted Tuesday afternoon to Pfizer's announcement that 1,100 of its workers in Groton will lose their jobs. Here is his statement, verbatim:
"Today's news that Pfizer will be laying off 1,100 employees in Connecticut and shifting many of those jobs to Cambridge, Massachusetts is more bad news for our state's struggling economy and sad news to those families affected by the layoffs. The very fact that one of our state's largest and strongest employers is laying off over 1,000 employees and moving jobs next door is proof that Connecticut is an unfriendly place to do business.