2025 is almost here! As we get ready to open a new calendar, we are also preparing to negotiate the next collective bargaining agreement with the State of Minnesota; the current agreement expires June 30, 2025. You’ll hear more information about the bargaining process and will be invited to participate in a survey in the coming months. Our power at the bargaining table is directly correlated with your participation in MGEC. Being a member of MGEC is critical! If you are already a member, THANK YOU! If not, it’s never too late to become one. Don’t let others decide your future – join and ... Read More >>
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MN Infrastructure Alliance Strategizes for the 2025 Legislative Session
The Minnesota Infrastructure Alliance, formerly known as MN 2050, has rebranded and is planning communication and advocacy strategies for the upcoming legislative session. Composed of a coalition of professional organizations working to support safe and sustainable infrastructure across the state. You might be familiar with its “Infrastructure Report Card’, released every other year based on a survey of infrastructure professionals from around the state. That report card will come out in 2026, and the group is focused on developing and distributing comprehensive messaging that tells the ... Read More >>
President’s Message
It's been an honor serving as your president for the 2nd time, with half of it in absentia (3 months in Japan, 2 months in the Philippines and 1 month in Guam). Many thanks to Dan Sullivan for his leadership as he hangs his Past President hat for the 2nd time. Looking forward to Corey Mathisen taking back the President mantle in January. Thanks to these gentlemen, other board members and officers, as well as our dedicated staff, for your hard work while I was gone. It seems not too long ago when we were in the middle of contract negotiations. Our 2023-2025 agreement saw the largest ... Read More >>
Board Election Winners
The MGEC Board Election Results are in. Even though we didn’t have any contested races in this cycle, we wanted to maintain the rhythm of the election cycle for several reasons: we want to make sure people know that they can select MGEC leadership every year; and we want the names and bios of MGEC leadership to be visible via the election process itself. Pursuant to MGEC’s Constitution, nominations for Board seats were open in September. The ballots were electronically distributed only to full MGEC members in October, and the voting window closed the same day as the Federal and State ... Read More >>
MnDOT Meet and Confer
On Wednesday, November 5th, a “meet and confer” meeting was held between senior MnDOT staff and MGEC. The goal of a meet and confer is to identify issues that affect members within a specific agency that don’t rise to the level of a solution that needs to come from the bargaining table. This meeting’s agenda included clarification on the Student Loan Reimbursement program, and discussions on concern over changes to teleworking affecting some members, and our mileage issue over reimbursements for meals while traveling. A MGEC member reached out to us about being denied a student loan ... Read More >>
Time Entry for Overnight Workers
Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB)– the state agency that manages operations for its various agencies – announced that they are altering how they expect time to be entered for employees who have workdays that stretch across calendar days. Specifically, this is almost always employees who work overnight. While most MGEC members work “regular” workdays, we do have members who work overnight and we want to make sure they are aware of the change. In order to better comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act, MMB wants hours worked to be recorded on the actual day they are worked. The ... Read More >>