As you’re no doubt aware, the contract between MGEC and the State of Minnesota expired on the last day of June. While it is always a source of frustration to have a contract expire before a successor labor agreement is in place, this is consistent with the history of bargaining with the State, and is common in the public sector more broadly. We have a set of mutually agreed upon dates with the State to bargain the next contract, beginning in September and running into December on a roughly two-week cycle. In our ideal scenario we will not require all the dates and can arrive at a ... Read More >>
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Proposed Constitution & Bylaws Changes
For the past 18 months, the MGEC Board and Membership Committee have reviewed our Constitution and Bylaws to ensure our organization is up-to-date, transparent, and efficient. Full members were emailed proposed changes to the Constitution and Bylaws. Thank you to the Full members that have voted. If you have not placed your vote, there is still time. Voting closes on August 26th. If you need assistance finding the link to vote, feel free to reach out to Donna@mgec.org. Remember if you want to have your voice heard and you are not currently a full member you can join now. ... Read More >>
MGEC Golf Tournament and Annual Meeting & Dinner
Registration is open for both the MGEC Golf Tournament and the MGEC Annual Meeting & Dinner. The Golf Tournament and Annual Meeting & Dinner will be held at the Oak Marsh Golf Course in Oakdale, MN on September 22nd. Registration closes 5:00 pm September 12th. The Golf Tournament will begin at 2:00 pm and end approximately 5:15 pm. Winners will be announced shortly thereafter. The cost to play 9 holes which includes a cart is $50. See registration link below. For those attending the dinner & meeting, social hour will begin at 5:30 pm with dinner at 6:00 pm. There is no cost ... Read More >>
MnDOT Meet and Confer Topics: Published Seniority Lists
On Wednesday, August 13, MGEC met with MnDOT senior leadership in our quarterly meet-and-confer meeting to discuss items of interest. The first agenda item related to the seniority lists that are regularly updated and published internally in the agency. Originally, the lists were published by classification seniority; employees could see where they stood in their job class against others in the same class across the whole state. At some point in the last several years, however, MnDOT began publishing the lists by “seniority unit”, essentially seniority by district, not statewide. MGEC’s ... Read More >>
2026 Health Insurance Premiums Update – 17% Increase
On Monday, August 18, the Joint Labor Management Committee met to learn the details of 2024 and 2025 healthcare spending across the SEGIP plans. That information is correlated with analysts’ expectations of near-term spending trends to arrive at the healthcare premium expenses for 2026. National healthcare spending– and healthcare spending trends within SEGIP - have risen by rates not seen since 2012, and health insurance premiums have to cover these spending increases to ensure the solvency of our plans. On average, SEGIP members needed more care, and costlier types of care, than they ... Read More >>
MGEC 2025-2027 Contract Negotiation Update
MGEC Officers and staff have met with the Minnesota Office of Management and Budget (MMB) to set up dates and protocols for the negotiation of the next labor agreement. We share the frustration of working under a contract that has expired while the next one is negotiated, although it is common in public sector negotiations. The MGEC Bargaining Committee has met several times over the last several months to identify bargaining priorities. Given that MMB reads our member communications such as this one, we prefer a strategy where they don’t know what our asks will be before we get to the ... Read More >>