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Do you have someone in your family studying in a STEM field?  MGEC has several scholarships available: the Connie Minetor Memorial Scholarship and the Family Members Scholarship.  Applications will be opened March 1st and applications will be accepted through 5:00 pm June 30th.  Winners will be announced at our Annual Meeting in the early fall.  Please encourage eligible applicants to apply! Click here to learn more along with the applications to apply. ... Read More >>

MGEC’s class-action grievance against MnDOT continues for the eight MGEC members whom the agency is demanding pay back authorized work hours simply because those work hours occurred in a pay period that contained a holiday.  The issue involves language in the contract regarding pay for FLSA-exempt employees. Rather than acknowledge that the place to have any discussion of how contract language is interpreted in the forum in which Minnesota state law and the contract itself demand – in front of a neutral arbitrator – the state has decided to go another route:  They simply declared that there ... Read More >>

Welcome to 2026 and thank you for your trust in me as President of MGEC. Thank you to outgoing President Corey Mathisen for his two terms in that role, and all of his service to MGEC! He will continue on the board as the recently elected Vice President, serving a two-year term. Additionally, I’d like to welcome incoming Past President Forrest Hasty. Thank you to previous past-president Fernando Nacionales for his service to our organization and country. Finally, welcome to our new board directors, Bill Meinholz and Mitch Kiecker, and thank you to our departing board directors, Bruce ... Read More >>

According to the latest information from Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), the back pay from the recently implemented collective bargaining agreement will be paid on February 6th.  This backpay will be based on the 1.5% cost-of-living increase going back to July 1st.  Those who benefitted from the “range reassignment” (Grad 1s and 2s, Trainee – Grad Engineers, Trainee – Land Surveyors, and Land Surveyors in training) will have those process shortly after the backpay. ... Read More >>

Minnesota Paid Leave (MPL) now joins the list of other leaves available for new parents, those with health conditions, as well as others who qualify for other uses, such as to take care of other members of the family.  While each state agency is responsible for implementing their own policies, this is a significant enhancement of benefits for employees who need additional paid time to take care their families and themselves.  It’s important to note that MPL runs concurrently with other leaves; it is not the case that when one ends another begins, and so on.  They all run together on the same ... Read More >>

Measured as a proportion of members relative to total MnDOT employees, MGEC leads all bargaining units in participation in the Student Loan Reimbursement Program. In the most recent application round in September, 39 MGEC applications were approved, delivering $71,413.84 in benefits to our members. While MAPE had 48 approved applications, they represent a significantly larger share of MnDOT’s workforce, making MGEC’s participation rate notably higher. It took a long time to get this program up and running at MnDOT, and MGEC is working with other bargaining units to push other agencies to ... Read More >>