Bargaining updates

Five days of negotiations were originally scheduled between the MGEC team and the State team at the MnDOT Training Center in Shoreview, MN. We met on each of those days and have now scheduled two additional days for meetings on October 31 and November 1. The negotiation process has been productive and proceeding well overall. On the State side, Paula Graff took over for Austin Neese as the lead negotiator for the State. Derrick Dasenbrock, MGEC President, continues serving as MGEC lead.  Each side has now made several complete proposal “passes” to the other side. There have been several ... Read More >>

    Your MGEC negotiating team began negotiations with the State one week ago on Tuesday, September 3, 2019.  It seems fitting that negotiations began the day after Labor Day, a U.S. Federal Holiday since 1894 which honors the American labor movement and the collective bargaining associated with organized labor. Our negotiating team held regular meetings throughout the summer to develop our contract opening proposals. Based on the experience of the Executive Board, dialogue at several on-site member meetings across the state, and direct responses from 684 members through a recent member ... Read More >>

It’s time for our 2019 member survey, so we know your priorities prior to beginning bargaining with MMB in September. This year the survey is being conducted in Constant Contact, which is the new platform we are using to send out our mass emails. We are aware that many of you did not receive the email invitation to take the survey in your inbox yesterday, but instead had the email quarantined by Outlook 365 or go to your junk folder. If the email was quarantined, to receive the email and survey link, choose “Release & Allow Sender,” (see picture below). If the email is in your junk folder ... Read More >>

MGEC elected to start our negotiations later than usual in 2019; we will first be meeting with State negotiators in September. Your MGEC insurance team has been actively participating in the early insurance bargaining. This gives your MGEC negotiating team more time to prepare and allows us to observe and react to the negotiation process between the State and the other unions. Look forward to information on the MGEC Executive Board’s thoughts going into this negotiating cycle, as well as an electronic member survey in July. We are finalizing our 2019 Contract Negotiations Member Survey. In ... Read More >>