HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Reaching a deal that required concessions from state employee unions to help balance Connecticut's state budget has strained the relationships between the workers, union leaders, state lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Repairing those alliances may not happen swiftly.

"I think it would be rocky right now, very rocky," said Sal Luciano, executive director of AFSCME Council 4, of the relationship between the unions and Malloy. AFSCME, along with other state unions, helped Malloy narrowly win election last November.

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